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I Found Hundreds of Dollars in Forgotten Subscriptions I Didn’t Know I Was Paying For
Be honest. How many times have you gotten an email that says “your subscription has renewed” and then stared at the sender name for a full ten seconds trying to remember what the subscription was actually for? If you’re me, the answer is a lot. The cost is even more. is a lot. The 99-cent…
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Where Does My Money Go?
Is it just me, or does money just… disappear the second I leave the house? It feels like I pay a tax just for opening my front door. Even if I don’t remember buying anything, the money is just… gone. The cash is not in the wallet, and the credit card has been swiped. And…
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A Budget Is Not a Punishment. It’s a Tool.
Let me tell you something nobody really talks about. Budgeting is hard. But not in the way you think. It’s not hard because of the math. It’s not hard because of the apps. The apps are (mostly) fine. It’s not hard because budgets are restrictive. In fact, most of the budgets that work are not…
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I Used to Spend an Hour a Week Budgeting. Now I Spend Five Minutes.
Here is something I used to do every Sunday for years. I would open my laptop. I would log into my checking account. I would copy the week’s transactions into a spreadsheet. Then I would log into my savings account and do the same thing. Then my credit card. Then my other credit card. Then…
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Why I’ve Started 47 Budgets (And the One That Finally Stuck)
I’ve started a budget approximately 47 times. Roughly. Conservative estimate. I’ve used apps that pinged me when I spent too much on coffee. I’ve tried the envelope method, on paper, with actual envelopes. I’ve built spreadsheets from scratch and abandoned them by week three. I made a beautiful Notion budget, which I opened exactly twice.…
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Personal Finance Tracking Spreadsheet Pack: Monitor Your Complete Financial Life
A coordinated set of personal finance tracking templates for Google Sheets and Excel — net worth, account balances, income tracking, and spending summaries all in one connected system.
