Money Matters
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If your living paycheck to paycheck? We get paid bi weekly and usually have a hundred or more dollars leftover over to spend freely and stash some into savings. But then sometimes I feel like we don't have a lot leftover to contribute to any savings accounts.....
Re: How do you know...
To me, living paycheck to paycheck means that all your bills eat up your income and you don't have enough to put in to savings. If you were to lose your job or have your hours cut, you wouldn't have enough income to pay all your bills.
Are you
No that's honestly all. I was just curious to see what the amount I guess really consisted of. I feel like people always have more money to save than we do, although I don't really know that. We just refinanced our condo so we are now saving 243 per mo
How much you save depends on your income and your spending. You might not make much money, but you could still save some of it if you don't spend much. It wouldn't be as much as someone who is making more money and also not spending much (assuming they
I use this excel spreadsheet/ template so I can really keep track of money coming in and then how much I spend in certain categories-
https://www.etsy.c
Here's how I look at it. If you were to miss a paycheck, would you still be able to pay your bills or would the loss of that paycheck cause you to miss a mortgage/rent payment, car payment, utility bill, etc? Or would you have enough in sav