Budgeting freaking sucks! Here’s how to love it.

13 personal finance bloggers share their initial thoughts about budgeting, and how they learned to love it.
  1. Great read, thanks for sharing!

  2. Great tips — I especially like the idea of planning for your outings and splurges. For spenders, planning money for fun keeps you under-budget. For savers, planning money for fun prevents you from becoming a boring tight-wod. lol. Thanks for aggregating these great tips.

  3. These are all great blogs. Thanks for sharing!

  4. Cate B says:

    These are great comments. I struggle with budgeting and need to read this kind of stuff to re-motivate. Glad I am not alone.

  5. I love creating and keeping up my budget. It’s the only way I am going to solidly get out of debt. I have a summer savings fund that a bit of money is directed to each paycheck. It’s essentially our entertainment fund ow and keeps us sane when money feels tight. Best savings fund I every started with my credit union.

    Especially when my child was little. It paid for increase child care costs like day camp and helped to fund school clothing and supplies.

  6. Lauren says:

    Thanks for the read! It has some really helpful info and the advice gives a realistic picture of what budgeting is like (HARD!) and why it’s worth it!

    I really like the point you made in your intro about finding the right budget for you. And, figuring out how you want your money to work for you. That was a perfect reminder for me tonight as I review and rework my budget.

  7. Amanda says:

    I think the hardest part, from my perspective, is seeing all my mom friends on Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook posting about all their crazy trips and such when I’m just trying to save money and get by.

  8. I really do agree that budgeting sucks! Especially when you first start. However, I’ve learned to love budgeting and I think that it’s something that everybody should do.

    Great post Kumiko!

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