Through my early 20's I never even thought of budgeting.
I thought I knew where my money was going.
I always wondered why I was running out of money before my next paycheck.
I always just assumed that I just wasn't making enough money.
I was right, I wasn't making enough money to spend the way I was spending money.
If I had budgeted my money I would have realized I was making enough money if I curtailed my spending.
But I was young and had no reason to fix my financial situation.
Through the years I finally figured out why I never made time to budget.
You're Afraid Maybe you know deep down inside that you shouldn't be spending so much money on going out at night or dining out.
You enjoy spending your money this way and if you actually knew how much you were spending on these things you would realize you can't keep it up and survive financially.
Don't be afraid, you have to think about what's important in your life.
Do you want to have fun now and worry about finances later? When do you think later is going to come? Just get your finances straight now and maybe you'll realize you can cut back on other aspects of your spending and keep up what you like to do.
Or maybe you'll realize setting a budget for what you like to do doesn't really reduce the value of it to you.
You Don't Care to Budget Perhaps you feel like you get by just fine.
You have a some money stashed away and you seem to have a little bit of money in your bank account before your paycheck goes in.
You feel like budgeting wouldn't really have an impact on your finances.
The truth is you don't know unless you try.
Just try it for a couple of months and I promise you will be surprised.
If you could just realize that budgeting will help you free up more money to do things that you like and help you to save more money towards something that you want, you'll want to budget.
Saying you don't care about budgeting pretty much says you don't care about your future self and providing for that person.
The only way you're probably ever going to start caring is if something traumatic happens in your life.
When a point comes in your life that you don't have any money to provide a life for yourself, then you'll start caring.
My point came when I ran out of money and I couldn't afford a place to stay.
I asked my dad to move back in with him and he actually said no.
He knew if I moved back in with him my habits wouldn't change.
At the time I was really upset about it.
Looking back it was one of the best things to ever happen to me.
I had to take control of my own life and get it together.
I didn't have anything to catch me when I fell.
With that I started to learn how to budget.
It was a slow process but I eventually got my finances together where I could support myself.
I'm very lucky I had a turning point in my life that made me get my finances in order.
I think everyone going through life just making it but not really doing anything to better their finances needs a point of do or die (not literally die) so they realize what they can do with their life.
They could do so much more if they just took control of their finances.