Save! Save! Feel the burn! Mint.com gets its users into financial fitness

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Let's face it: keeping on top of your finances is never fun. Mint.com wants to change all that. Since September 2007, users of the online personal-finance service could track how they're spending money. Starting today, you can also measure how financially fit you are.

Financial Fitness measures whether you're using debt wisely, how well you're preparing for the unexpected, and several other aspects of saving your money. Once a month, Mint.com gives users a score of up to 100%, showing you everything you did right, such as spotting errors in your credit report -- and wrong, such as racking up bank fees or spending more than 30 percent of your card's credit limit.

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