My wife and I have done a good job in never buying anything unnecessary and thinking twice/comparing prices, etc with everything we do. Looking back almost a year, there are no expenses that we regret or could have avoided.
For the last couple months I stopped my rigorous budgeting and expense tracking and looks like we are doing just fine. The only difference is that I am not laboring away on excel sheets anymore and have some more free time on my hands.
I think there is value in trusting your natural decision making after years of disciplining yourself so gonna give it a try for some time.
I am still on the lookout for savings wherever possible, and keep a mental record of major expenses and have a pretty good idea of our finances at any given point but all in the rough - not written down to the penny anymore. Feels good.
Anyone else go through this transformation?
Submitted May 14, 2019 at 03:00AM by katofunanori http://bit.ly/2WFeIyp
