I was thinking about budgeting lately (I don't do it already) but the extreme inflation in my country, Argentina, makes it a bit difficult.
I had the idea of introducing some kind of "randomness" to the amount of money I can spend on non essential expenses in order to avoid the lifestyle creep. One month maybe you have enough money available to spend it on several eatouts and another month you can't.
Hey! I'm also from Argentina, and what seems to work for me is to budget in dollars.
I use beancount and load the blue ARS-USD exchange rate and record all my transactions in the currency it actually happened. I am a bit flexible as to avoid lifestyle creep and ARS appreciation (like this month)
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I was thinking about budgeting lately (I don't do it already) but the extreme inflation in my country, Argentina, makes it a bit difficult.
I had the idea of introducing some kind of "randomness" to the amount of money I can spend on non essential expenses in order to avoid the lifestyle creep. One month maybe you have enough money available to spend it on several eatouts and another month you can't.
Hey! I'm also from Argentina, and what seems to work for me is to budget in dollars.
I use beancount and load the blue ARS-USD exchange rate and record all my transactions in the currency it actually happened. I am a bit flexible as to avoid lifestyle creep and ARS appreciation (like this month)