how to budget

The Best Free Budgeting Tools That Actually Work in 2025 If you’re living paycheck to paycheck, drowning in subscriptions, or constantly wondering where your money went, y... read the story

Quit the Budget Bleed on 10 Ways To Use Money Wisely: 9 Simple Tweaks Today You get paid. You pay bills. Then you blink, and your bank account’s already running dry. Sound familiar? For many, it... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

Should You Still Be Using Cash Envelopes in The Digital Age? The envelope budgeting system is one of the best-known ways for people to budget. It’s often the first method that... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

Why Self Care Should Be Included in Budget Self care. It’s such a loaded phrase. You know that you’re supposed to embrace it and yet maybe you’re... read the story

by Kathryn Vercillo

Here’s How to Use a Weekly Savings Plan to Improve Your Budget I recently attempted a no-spend month challenge. However, I didn’t succeed because I made several money planning m... read the story

by Amanda Blankenship

Here’s How to Thrive on a Bullet Journal Budget Most people have transferred their budgets to an app or computer software by now. With cool apps like Mint and You Need ... read the story

20 of the Best Personal Finance Books to Add to Your Reading List In a world of misguiding money advice, how do you find the right personal finance book for you? Covering everything from... read the story

by James Hendrickson

Outdated Budgeting Methods That Still Work Budgeting is something that many people seem to look at as outdated. A few years ago a Gallup poll was released that sai... read the story

by Jennifer Derrick

Budget Categories That Our Grandmothers Didn’t Have To Worry About When talk of saving money comes up, it usually leads to talk of the “good old days” when things were simpler... read the story

by M. Beddingfield

Trash the Budget and Get Happy In 2008 you worried and logged every cent you made. You made out a budget and tried to stick to it. Every month you fail... read the story