Maybe skip the fancy budgeting app and just use paper

I went to a financial workshop at the library in Austin last month and everyone was raving about these new budgeting apps that track every penny. But the speaker admitted she still uses a simple notebook and ran some numbers showing apps cost like $10 a month on average. That's $120 a year just to track money, which kind of defeats the purpose for me. Has anyone else tried going back to plain old paper and saved more than they expected?

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clairem4717d ago

Wait, the speaker herself uses a notebook and not an app? That's wild!

jennysullivan17d ago

Oh man, this is actually such a good point! I feel like we've gotten so obsessed with having the "perfect" app or system that we forget sometimes the simplest tools work the best. I've noticed a bunch of people in my life lately ditching their fancy productivity apps for plain notebooks or even just sticky notes. It's like we're all realizing that the friction of opening an app and navigating all the features can actually kill the motivation to write stuff down. There's something about physically writing that just sticks in your brain better, you know?