In thinking about budgeting your money, I was thinking about how to do that in the most practical way. It seems we cringe at the thought of the budget because of the restrictions it places on us. We don’t like those restrictions. We want to be free to do whatever. But I thought, “What if, within the constraints of that budget, I allowed a large degree of flexibility? Would that make the budget more palatable?”
The idea of a budget is anathema to most people. Unless one is forced to do a budget, they don’t generally volunteer for it. It’s like volunteering to put yourself in prison. No one does that. But that’s before thinking about the value of living within those boundaries. Purposely living on a limited means allows you to have money left over at the end of the month. That’s when you truly notice the value of it. Now you have money left over for savings, investment, or—dare I say it—fun stuff.
But the flexibility I was thinking about was to allow flexibility for how you spend that money. So, you’re just putting limits on the amount spent, but not on how you spend it. This can have a positive psychological effect just because you don’t feel so hemmed in. Sometimes when we give ourselves limits they’re so restrictive that they’re hard to even follow. Like if I say, “I can only spend this much per month and I can only spend it on practical things.” That makes us naturally want to rebel. We think about all the things we have to miss out on and end up feeling all dejected.
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In my personal life, I have endeavored to only budget my spending on food. That’s because I’ve noticed the most wasteful spending happening there. However, I’ve notice that if I restrict both my spending, and how I spend it, I’m not as likely to follow it. So instead of telling myself that I can only spend so much on food per month and I can’t eat out any more, I say I can only spend so much on food per month but I can spend it however I want. I can eat out as much as I want, or eat in as much as I want, but I still have to stay within that budget. This gives me a little bit of the flexibility I’m looking for, if even just psychologically.
Sometimes we go overboard in our discipline. Then the discipline only seems like discipline, or something that is trying to kill our fun, and it doesn’t appear to be anything of value. But if you give yourself some freedom, you find that’s where the true freedom is. Those constraints are there for your benefit. But you can also have fun within those constraints. That makes it more feasible. And it’s also not so scary. Sometimes we get more restrictive than we need to be and we end up scaring ourselves.