This is pretty much true for every single person in every single financial situation. Whether you’re a millionaire, or paycheck to paycheck, or homeless. You need to understand where your money is coming from and where it’s going.

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    6 days ago

    There is also local budgeting software out there. Buckets is a nice version for the “envelope” system. If you want to sync to your accounts, they offer a $15/yr service to do that called simplefin. The software itself is free to use forever, but a license is $64 when you feel like paying. Not limited like shareware, just a generous business model.

    You can also go with Actual budget, a self hosted and FOSS budgeting software, fully free. It can also use simplefin to sync accounts.

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      5 days ago

      Simplefin is new to me! I downloaded buckets but didn’t really get past setup because I need sync, it’s just infeasible otherwise with how many accounts I have.