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Can anyone help me budget?

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  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    Another good thing to do is annualise each catagory

    This shows you totals for a year and gives you a beter perspective.

    we found we spent the same on takeaways as we spent on a holiday.

    we changed to have an extra holiday and fewer takeaways.
  • dawyldthing
    dawyldthing Posts: 3,438 Forumite
    I think set yourself a target for how much you would like to spend over the year for each group and keep a tally for each group, any left over can go into a 'savings for the future' as one day you may want to buy a house, move out of home etc and all of these will need a fair bit of savings so they can happen.
    :T:T :beer: :beer::beer::beer: to the lil one :) :beer::beer::beer:
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