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Appreciation post: I finally tracked every single dollar for a month

Honestly, I always thought budgeting was just about big categories like 'food' and 'bills'. I was wrong. Writing down every coffee and gas station snack showed me we were blowing over $200 a month on small stuff we forgot about. How do you guys keep track of the little daily spends?
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lewis.finley
My wife and I started using a shared note on our phones for anything under twenty bucks. That immediate log stops the "where did it go" feeling at the end of the week. The real shocker was seeing how much those small logs added up to a car payment.
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tarabell
tarabell4d ago
Wait, @lewis.finley said a car payment? That's insane.
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uma_williams
Check every small buy adding up to a car payment.
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