408-Budget Categories for the New Year that Actually Matter

What’s the point of budgeting? Isn’t it supposedly supposed to help you get richer?

Well, one way to make budgeting matter is if your budget categories actually help you to understand what’s happening with your money.

Today, I walk you through some of my personal budget categories and explain how they impact my spending decisions.

I don’t think you’ll find these budget categories in any pre-existing software. But I do think they’ll be really useful to you!

Joshua

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Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, is the world's leading authority on integrating lifestyle goals and money goals without conflict. He teaches normal people how to seamlessly connect the science of financial planning with the joy of goal achievement.

Joshua is dedicated to helping normal people achieve financial freedom by merging creative (and crazy) ideas from the world of personal finance with the academic integrity of formal financial planning. He simplifies complex money topics and makes boring financial mumbo-jumbo less boring.