If you want to be a better ‘budgeter’ this year, this is the video for you. I’m going to go over how I actually decide how much to budget in each category, and also share how my January spending and budget in general has been going so far this year, three weeks in.

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0:00 How your budget can be freeing
1:33 How to set up your budget categories
4:40 How much money I spent in January

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22 thoughts on “How To Budget For The First Time – Set Up My Budget With Me | Onlyinvesting.info”
  1. Absolutely loved using your budget template this past month! It actually took away a lot of my money stress as I was able to see how much I’ve actually been saving and it made me take a closer look at how my investments are doing. Love your content!

  2. @ Steph… I have been following you for quite a long time and I really like your videos but I think you talk a little too fast and I struggle to understand you I will appreciate it if you slow down a little just so that I can understand everything you're saying. Thank you !

  3. Cool stuff as always. Your grocery bill (total, not just your half) is roughly the same as mine (2 person household also) and that's a typical month for me. You can probably expect to see it increase though, as based on your past videos and this I know you guys shop mainly at Metro, and they've already announced they're restarting the gouging now that the price freeze is past.

  4. You give me hope that living in Toronto on a budget is possible 😅Also, I don't think TFSA contributions should count as "expenses", you only really spent $2159 in January, which is pretty impressive!

  5. Love the monthly breakdown recaps of your monthly budget. Helps to keep my yearly budget in check as well. Please keep them coming and good luck the rest of the year.

  6. I'm really liking this tracker so far but I have a question related to the explainer video (hope it's okay to ask here).

    I placed my debt payment category under the 'Stantard Budget' section, but in Steph's example, it went under 'Savings & Investing'…. should I moved it over or is it okay where it is, since we do contribute to it monthly?

  7. @Steph can you please do a video explaining your budget tracker. It looks really good but i had a few questions. For example, for a new month (feb) do you duplicate tabs or do you just change month on these tabs? Because when i change the month on tab… the data for January disappears on Annual budget tab.

  8. I have tried A LOT of budget templates and yours is by far the most efficient and simple one to use for me, thank you for putting in the effort to create this and sharing it with us!!

  9. Am I supposed to write every single transition on monthly expensive tracker or do I sum everting into their assigned category? If I do need to write every induvial expense am I allowed to add more boxes?

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