I created my first budget in Excel in 2011, and it was a complete failure. Over a period of a year, I tried every budgeting method known to man. I tried the Calendar Method, the Cash Envelope Method, Monthly budgeting, Percentage Budgeting, and the Half Payment Method. Nothing seemed to work. I’m not going to lie. I gave up on my budgeting efforts for almost a full year. I felt like if I couldn’t grasp the concept of budgeting in a year, I was never going to get it.
Then something happened that changed my life forever.
I got pregnant. I was going to have a little boy. At that point, gaining control of my finances took on a whole new meaning, and it was now more critical than ever that I learned how to manage my money.
I decided to give budgeting another chance, but this time I was going to do it differently. Why did I have to use one method? During my time of struggle, I found a lot of different things about each of the budgeting methods that I tried that I really liked. Was there a way that I could use some aspects from all of them?
It took almost six months, but in the end, I developed a unique budgeting system that changed my life forever.
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