Pulled the budget spreadsheet back out after almost a year of just… not looking at it. Job hunting means the income column is basically blank right now, so I want a clearer picture before savings run low. Plan is 30 days of writing down every purchase, no rounding, then reviewing at the end of the month.
The part I keep getting stuck on: where does yarn go. It’s not really an essential, but it’s the one thing keeping my hands busy between applications instead of constantly refreshing my email, so it feels different from a random impulse buy. Right now I’ve got it in its own little column just so it stops throwing off the “wants” total (if that even counts as its own category).
Anyone else track a stress hobby separately like that, or do you just lump it into wants and accept the number looks worse than it feels?