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Learn how to use some free and easy apps to keep control of your budget.

Key Points:

  • Keeping track of your money and balancing your budget are skills we can all get better at.
  • Many apps these days are helpful for budgeting.
  • Mint is an app that tracks the user’s finances.
  • Wally is an app that helps the user set budgeting goals.
  • Fudget helps the user do short-term budgeting and is great for holiday spending.
  • Using apps to help you plan and stick to your budget can help take money-related stress out of your life.

Quote This:

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry. -Walker Ulbricht

Talk About It
  1. What is your initial reaction to this topic? What jumped out at you?
  2. From A to F, How would you rate your budgeting/money management skills? Why do you rate yourself this way?
  3. Have you ever used a budgeting app or software? If so, what has your experience been like?
  4. What are some of the advantages or disadvantages of having instant access to your budget throughout your day?
  5. Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
This topic is adapted from the Tasia Custode YouTube channel.