Hello All,

Alex here! So, I’m not very good at math and I try to avoid doing it whenever humanly possible, but when it comes to saving for my car, I have no choice. Before I got my U22 account, I had to start writing down how much I was making and how much I would be spending each week so that I could avoid wasting money. I had to save receipts just to record all of the money I was spending. And at the end of each month, I’d tally up all of the money I’d spent. From that list, I came up with things I could cut back on, so I had an estimate on how much I could spend once I got my pay checks. But now that I have my U22 account, I have replaced all of those tedious chores with the GTE FCU Money Tracker!! It’s free for U22 members and extremely easy to use. The Money Tracker informs you of exactly where you’re spending your money and what you’re spending it on. You can even create a budget plan, so all of that hard work I was doing is over!! It also gives you a monthly report on what your spending habits are. I never realized how much money I was spending each month, and since I found out, I was able to make huge cutbacks. One of the biggest areas of overspending for me was food. I usually resort to eating whatever my stomach craves, instead of cooking and buying groceries, which not only leads to me overspending, but also eating unhealthy foods. So now that I’m changing that I guess you can say that saving with the Money Tracker has been good for my health.

Check out the U22 checking account at GTE Federal Credit Union, www.U224U.com. Because learning about money is important no matter what your age!