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Budgeting for a Life You Can’t Afford
This becomes a problem when you’re spending for a life you can’t afford. It puts pressure on your budget and encourages you to live in a paycheck to paycheck cycle.
Assess your financial situation, cut back on your expenses, prioritize your money goals, and then come up with a new spending plan.
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Making Your Budget Too Strict
Budget for the life you have. When you’re going through your budget and assigning spending categories, be realistic.
Don’t tell yourself you’ll never buy a single discretionary item, because you’re setting yourself up for failure. Give yourself some breathing room.
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Budgeting Without a Purpose
It’s hard to stick to a budget that doesn’t have a goal.
When there isn’t one, your budget becomes an afterthought rather than a spending plan to reach your financial goals.
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Forgetting About Irregular Expenses
If you keep blowing your budget because expenses “pop up” every month, you’re probably not budgeting for irregular expenses.
It’s a common budget problem with an easy fix: find those quarterly, annual, and other seemingly random expenses, and add them in.
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Not Having a Cushion
It’s important to have an emergency fund. When your car breaks down, you have money to pull from, rather than screwing up your budget for the next few months until you get back on track.
It might take you some time and slow down your goal progress, but building an emergency fund will kee...
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Budgeting Without a Purpose
It’s hard to stick to a budget that doesn’t have a goal.
When there isn’t one, your budget becomes an afterthought rather than a spending plan to reach your financial goals.
Budgeting = creating a plan to spend your money
Budgeting is simply balancing your expenses with your income.
It's a plan for the coordination of resources and expenditures. When you budget your money, there’s a desired outcome. And being able to track your spending should ultimately move you in the right direction towar...
What a Budget Does
As a personal financial planning tool, a written, monthly budget allows you to plan for how you'll spend and/or save your money each month and also keep track of your spending patterns.
With a budget, you can begin to prioritize your spending and better manage your money and financia...
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