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๐Ÿ‘€ Too much month at the end of your money?

#191 | Magic Number

Karina
Mar 3, 2023
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Picture this person, if you will.

20- 30- 40- 50- something. Absolute rubbish with money.

Makes enough money. Never has money.ย 

Sound familiar?

We teach our children how to read and write and code and compute and science โ€“ everything they need for their bright shiny futures as cogs in the consumption engine. But we donโ€™t teach them about money โ€“ how to use it, how to invest it, and how to make it work for them.ย 

Proitiโ€™sthing on Monday could be about me in my 20s and early 30s. I was Budget Rani with my spreadsheets and complex math. Yet, I started each month flush and ended it povvo (thanks, Shabaz).

Everyone I knew was just like me.ย 

Because unless you are one of those โ€œhospital creasesโ€ people, budgets N.E.V.E.R. work. Budgets (like business plans and resolutions) are always aspirational.

I likely would have been this person forever if Avraham Byers and his brilliant, stupidly simple daily wad of cash method hadnโ€™t come along.ย 

Imagine this:

Every day, before you go off to the wars, I knock on your door and give you money. Say 100 of whichever currency applies to you. This is your money. Yours to spend on whatever you need โ€“ groceries, expensive coffee, kibble for your cat, pizza and a movie.

Iโ€™m back at your door the following day with another 100 for you to spend. On whatever you want. And I come back every day, day after day, with another 100 for you.

A Magic Number.

A fixed amount of money to spend every day without obsessing over the implications sounds like something you could get on board with, right? Avraham has a cute little e-book where he explains how to go about finding yours.ย 

Whoโ€™s the Povvo now?

K


P.S. This is the first photo of all of us together in one place ever. Weโ€™re delicious, no?

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