Spending Habits

What changes when you actually watch where the money goes, one month at a time.

I Logged Everything I Bought Under $15 for a Month. It Was $412.

Small purchases feel free, which is exactly why they are not. One month of writing down every sub-$15 spend, and what the total actually turned out to be.

Nate FeldmanSep 7 — 3 min read

Money

I Paid for Everything in Cash for Two Weeks and It Was Not the Lesson I Expected

The classic advice is that cash makes you spend less because handing it over hurts. It did make me spend less, for a completely different reason, and the reason is reproducible without the cash.

Grace ColemanAug 27 — 3 min read

Money

What 30 Days of Logging Every Purchase Did to My Spending

One boring month of writing down every purchase in a notebook turned out to change more than any budget I'd ever tried. Here's what I actually found.

Grace ColemanAug 20 — 3 min read

Money

The Category I Had to Invent Was "I Don't Know Why I Bought This"

Six months of categorising my own spending produced one bucket I did not plan for, and it turned out to hold more money than my grocery bill.

Nate FeldmanAug 15 — 3 min read