My Sunday column was about filtering out the financial noise and focusing on the pocketbook issues you can control at home — spending and saving, being adequately insured, being frugal and instilling that value into your children.

And on today’s Dollar Duo video (head to startribune.com and scroll through the videos…working on getting the darn thing embedded into my blog in future weeks), John and I took that concept one step further by outlining ways to track spending so that you can begin to make changes at home if need be.

John had a nifty budget device that looked like a checkbook register. I told viewers about Mint.com, which aggregates my credit and debt card information into one place and notifying me when I’m going over my budget in problem areas.

We also agreed to have a track your spending challenge, where John and I track every penny we spend for a week. We’ll compare notes in a future Dollar Duo segment.

Does anyone want to join us? I’m thinking we start next week on Monday, Oct. 6th.

Anyone have favorite budgeting tools or track your spending success tips to share?

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