Pulled the budget spreadsheet back up after letting it sit untouched since that newsletter thing I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Life got in the way, two more wedding invites landed on top of the ones already on the calendar, plus I’ve been deep in job applications, so the tracking fell off the list without me really deciding to drop it.
Starting over this week with just one rule: $40 a week for anything that isn’t rent or bills. Not trying to rebuild the whole system again, just that one number, every Monday, reset.
Logged it twice so far, Monday and today, both times under the limit, which honestly caught me off guard since I usually guess low and end up way over. Still not convinced this holds past week one though, given how the last attempt went.
Put a sticky note on the laptop lid as the reminder instead of an app notification I’d just swipe away without reading. Small thing, but it’s doing more work than the app ever did.