Unpopular opinion: my dad's envelope system beat every budgeting app I tried
My dad kept telling me for two years to stop messing with apps and just pull $300 cash every Friday for groceries and gas. I ignored him until I overdrafted twice in one week back in March, then tried it out of spite. Now I'm 5 months in with $1,800 saved, so what's the one old school budgeting trick you swore you'd never try?
My grandfather hid cash in a coffee can labeled "tires" so my grandmother wouldn't spend it, and honestly that fake label trick works better than any app category.