....of my fake weekly payday.
I am a once a month paycheque kinda girl. End of the month to be precise. Before I was Gail Vaz Oxladized and went on her budget and jar system, I really hated those last two weeks of the month. The money was gone. I had spent willy nilly and it was hard to make it through to the end of the money, before I made it through the end of the money.
When I went on the jars I had to decide what my 'weeks' would look like as I divided up my month. I couldn't go with the simple 'once a week' option, like say every Friday. as that leaves me with a few days each month with zero dollars.
So I took the variable option. I just curl up with my big calendar and added one day to each week until I ended up with a normal week at the end of the month. That makes most of my pay weeks about 8 days long. I indicate each weekly 'pay day' with a lil star on the calendar.
For example. I got paid Wednesday, August 25th, or Week 1 as I call it. Week 2 is on Thursday, Sept 9th. Week 3 starts Friday Sept 17th and then payday comes around Saturday Sept 25th.
I started with this about 18 months ago. It takes me about 10 minutes to go through the year's calendar, figure out my 8 or 7 day weeks, star them and I'm good to go. I just got my new "Mom's Helper" calendar last week so this morning I will star up the weeks until next fall.
What is great about it, is that I now 'see' myself as getting paid once a week. I know what day I get paid the new weekly jar money. I know how long I have to make it last and I know that I will have another payday in about a week.
It makes it soooo much easier than when I used to have to make the money last all month. So much more manageable. so much more freeing.
It might now work for everyone, but here at the Money Tree House, it makes my world run so much better.
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2 comments:
That's interesting. I get paid at the beginning of the month, and I actually like that I know what I have to work with for the whole month all at once. But I can see how you're system would be nice too. It's funny how everyone does things a little differently.
I often wondered what it would be like to be paid once a month...I would think I would plow through it in the first week! So glad it works out better breaking it down weekly. I may have to try that on our bi-monthly schedule! :)
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