What free services exist out there that automatically send a text message alerting you to something or another?

If you use http://www.mint.com/ for your finances, it can send you all sorts of useful text messages: - When your bank acct falls below a certain amount - When a purchase over X dollars is made on one of your cards - When you go over your budget in a particular category

My company http://foneshow.com/ will send you a text message alert whenever any podcast you follow has a new show — and the text message contains a phone number that you can call to hear the podcast!

- http://calendar.google.com/ can send you text reminders before scheduled events - https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ will text your whole daily todo list or reminders for specific tasks to you. You can also add items to your todo list with texts (via twitter)

if you track periods through http://monthlyinfo.com/, which is both free and awesome, you can choose to get text messages x days before your period starts or before you start ovulating.

One dissent on Mint: I found that its alerts often came late, sometimes a few days late. By the time I'd gotten the alert that my checking balance had fallen below a given amount, I'd already corrected the situation by making a deposit. Two days prior. Which I did when I was perusing my account on my own online. Also, Mint was unable to let me add my credit card and my IRA to my account, because of a truly inane password/login snafu. Mind you, when it was working, it was really, really good. But there still seemed to be some very large bugs in the system; one of which was indeed the sending of alerts, which seems like this wouldn't serve well.

http://www.timecave.com/timecave/about.jsp allows you to send whatever kind of alerts you'd like, for any time in the future.

One dissent on Mint: I found that its alerts often came late, sometimes a few days late. Yeah, a problem with Mint is the infrequency of the updates. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) Credit card sites often don't display purchases until a few days afterwards. 2) Mint may not poll your accounts often enough. In order to conserve resources, they update all your accounts when you log in, but in between logins it may not happen as quickly. I wish I had hard numbers, but I agree that it may not even be daily.

Cambridge, MA has a service that sends an alert about parking related things - street cleaning, snow emergencies, etc. It has saved me from a few tickets.

http://ask.metafilter.com/143713/What-free-services-exist-out-there-that-automatically-send-a-text-message-alerting-you-to-something-or-another#2057418: "Weather.com has text message alerts" Thanks for the update... last time I went to try this service, they wanted something like $6 a month. Now it looks like they really are free. :) Regarding Mint, caveat emptor... some banks don't work with Mint. Mine changed its login system over 2 years ago and Mint still hasn't been able to add the new login system, rendering it useless to me unless I switch banks (which I'm not interested in doing).