What is the Cash Envelope System?

You’re trying to learn to budget, or you already know how to budget, but it’s difficult to stick to your actual numbers. Some bills are hard to budget for like gas, water and electric since they are based off of usage. Other places that may be hard to stick to a budget is groceries, gas, miscellaneous or fun money. Studies have shown that your brain processes using cash different and more painful that just swiping a card. Swiping a card is easy, whereas handing over physical cash makes you double think your purchases. Using that information, if you stick cash … Continue reading What is the Cash Envelope System?

What are Sinking Funds?

When I started this, I kept seeing “sinking funds” everywhere. Y’all, I was so confused! I had no idea what they were or why they were so important. So I did some research. Sinking funds are specific items you know come up within the year, but aren’t a monthly payment. For example, Christmas, birthdays, car registration, etc. These are things you still have to pay for, just not monthly. I thought about what things were important and that I knew I needed to pay for within the next year. I came up with Christmas (next year), truck registration, birthdays and … Continue reading What are Sinking Funds?