FUNDAMENTAL FINANCE

The Basics of Budgeting

How to spend your money on what you really, truly want.

Angus Peterson
4 min readJul 23, 2021

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Artwork showing a credit card and call-outs to various budget items.
Budgets vary by person, but looking ahead is for all of us. (Photo by Monstera from Pexels)

When you think of budgets, you probably think of some soul-sucking, life-draining exercise of tracking your spending history down to the penny, then seeing if anything is left.

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