Learning To Love Your Budget

Photo by Sandy Millar on Unsplash

When I was nine or ten years old, I started keeping track of the change in my piggy bank. First, I counted all of the money and wrote the balance on a slip of paper. I placed the slip of paper in the top of the bank (it was not an actual pig but rather a cylinder-shaped bank). Every time I added money, I adjusted the balance. Every time I used money, I adjusted the balance. That way I knew how much money I had at any given time and could…