To all those who may be watching and have not yet done a budget, I think I can understand a few of the reasons that may be keeping you from doing one. For my part, not all that many years ago, the idea of a budget was one of those things that sounded kinda like torture. Thing is, that for me, this was because I was terrified of money. I didn't want to look to closely at money. Grew up in a home where... well, I'm not sure what happened to the money, but I knew that the power, water, roof, etc were not ever really guaranteed and God help us if we should need to eat. So yeah, I was terrified of money. Great amorphous blob that was either there, or it wasn't, and you had no control over which it was.
Then, finally, I tried budgetting and while it was really sucky at first, and scary, pretty soon, it became kinda what I call my security blanket. I knew what money was there. I knew how much I had to spend, how much we made, where it went and what it was for. You can control your money, and you can control your life.
Yeah, so I hope that this isn't like too much information or something, but that also maybe it'll help someone out there. Budgeting doesn't mean, I think, that you lose control over your money. It means you get that control back. Like they say "if you don't tell your money where to go, it leaves".
