LearnVest.com: Do you manage your money well?

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Here at myLot we tend to do our best to learn about how to make money, but managing your money is also a very important aspect of everyone's financial life. LearnVest.com was created as a website to improve women's financial literacy. Too often, women don't learn how to manage their money, or they leave the financial know-how to their spouses. Then, disaster strikes, and women are left with a personal financial meltdown. I'm fairly young, but I think learning how to invest and manage my money is just as important as finding ways to make it. I've been a subscriber of LearnVest.com for about 6 months now, and I really like the tips it gives about how to save money and budget. Additionally, they now have a Budgeting Tool that allows you to link merge all of your accounts and see all of your financial information in one place. For me, it's really nice to see all of my loans, credit card purchases, and bank account information all at once. And, now I know if I'm on budget without having to input stuff into an Excel spreadsheet or estimate. LearnVest also gives tips on how to invest in your retirement as well as introduction to how the financial market works (for newbies like me). You can definitely join LearnVest if you're a guy, but I will say that the interface is definitely female-oriented. Additionally, it's a little graphics-heavy, but the LearnVest team is supposed to be working on an updated, more efficient version of the site. Do you manage your money well? How do you invest? Where did you learn how to take care of your money?