They never work, math wise..I am always left with either too much money in the bank or not enough money, and trying to figure out why or where!!!!
UGH..
Today it is too much money, I know nice problem to have, but...
See the budget is only set up to spend the minimum paycheck, and he almost always works overtime, so that over time money is supposed to go to pay off the car....but I have two different answers on how much it is...
My bank account says one number 2K (actually two bank accounts each have their own number added up is the 2K), my budget says another, 1.5K. Neither are what I expected (
The reason I hate budgets...
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But a full month would be a full 3k not earning or reducing interest....I don't think I want to do that. But thanks for the idea.
Nana, I decided to split the difference
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i also budget for the minimum paycheck. actually, i round both of mine down to the nearest hundred to make the math faster, and i don't budget DH's occasional 3 paycheck month. and when i write checks, i round up again for faster math. i keep track of all of this in my budgeting software and let the checking account be until the end of the month. once i've confirmed i've paid everything, i'm left with 2 totals: total A in my budgeting software of money leftover, and total B in my checking account which is a litle higher because it accumulates all my rounding 'mistakes'. i transfer the total A amount to my slush fund, leaving me with a zero balance in my budgeting software, and a small cushion in the checking account. repeat the next month...
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