Question

A couple of questions after 1st month doing the weekly paycheck budget. 1. If you take your money in cash for certain categories of expenses how do you track what you actually spend in each category for the month? I want it all in one place so we can see where to make improvements. 2. We ended up taking money from other categories to pay for things we ran out of money in (ie gas money we didn’t need for grocery store run, Pet money we didn’t spend on eating out? ) How do you track this so you know how much you “actually” spent in each category? Thanks.  

Answer 1

Keep receipts as you go and write it all out by category.  

Answer 2

2. Using your example, On the tracker for gas, just write moved to groceries, with the amount, and on the groceries, write moved from gas, adding that amount.