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That viral clip of a 'cash stuffing' budget queen saving $10k in a year, I actually tried the envelope thing for 90 days
I figured it was just TikTok fluff so I pulled $400 in cash each check and stuffed envelopes for rent, gas, and food. Ended up saving $1,150 in 3 months, mostly because handing over real bills for takeout hurts way more than tapping a card. Curious if anyone else tried it and whether the magic fades once you go back to plastic.
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charles7209d ago
Did you keep the envelopes separate from your wallet or did you carry them around? I did something close to this last year but I left the gas and food cash at home so I couldn't cheat on lunch breaks. The thing that helped most was a boring one, I wrote the balance on the outside of each envelope every Sunday so I could see it dropping in real time. Plastic killed it for me though, once I started tapping again the food envelope lasted like 6 days instead of 2 weeks, so now I pull cash out the same day I get paid and that's the only money I let myself touch.
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