Money Made Easy: This Broke Girl’s Guide to Budgeting

It’s the beginning of a brand new year and you know what that means: a brand new YOU! 

...Just kidding. We’re still the same people that we were in 2020, no magical spell cast at midnight made us better at what we used to be bad at, and that includes money management. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take this opportunity to try and better ourselves and our financials. And this means taking a good hard look at our spending patterns and trying to adapt them to actually work for us (not just pretend that they do).

If you’re like me, you have bouts of being absolutely obsessed with the Refinery29 Money Diaries. “Why can’t that be me?” you ask yourself. “Y’know what, someday I’ll submit one! Not now, obviously, but when I get it all together.” And yet that day of “getting it together” has never arrived. 

Well, that day has finally come and we’re gonna do it together. It’ll take some time and some work, so get comfy, get some snacks, and put your comfort playlist on. And let’s get to it!