Working on it
It's hard to have a budget for things when you don't have a fixed income, be it wages or salary. For someone whose income is fixed then a budget might actually be easy to come through with.
What also gives me a headache is how you have a budget whereby your salary doesn't add up to anything and the market price changes constantly.
For me, having a budget has been one of the hardest things for me to keep up with because I have never worked a fixed-income job and I'm not from a place whereby you get an extra hand or that push to balance your life. I remembered when I was working as a paster, which your pay depends on what you do, I still don't have a fixed income because sometimes I stay home for two weeks without going to work or sometimes there is not enough work or your body doesn't want to get stressed.
But recently, I have been trying to have a budget for my income even though I'm still struggling with some aspects of it but I'm sure with time and not giving up, I should be able to balance everything.
The first on my budget when my earnings is coming is the 10% for God ( tithe) I do my possible best to not stop paying it and have been doing that for many months now, the first time I wanted to do this was 2017 but I didn't pay it up to 3 months before I stopped but now God is helping me. After I'm done with that, I take some for feeding not just for me alone because I stay with my family.
I try to save up some which have actually been one of the problems have been facing actually because I don't expect myself to have money and be starving of something or someone I know needs help and also try to start something aside that is consuming all my savings.
I don't have a problem with my junks starving because I already work on that. I'm a lover of anything made with flour but not anymore and going out is not my thing. I'm also trying to work on having a budget of how much I spend on subscribing to the internet monthly, I would say that's one of the things that consume my money. The last time I did the calculation, I should own like two houses now(lol)...
My budget is not what I want it to be but maybe if I get a job with fixed income then my budget would be great but before then I will keep working my budget with my unfixed income.
Thanks for your time
May God bless you with a job to monitor your income and make the Budgeting more attainable for you.
The best is to keep paying tithes because it pays.
Amen ma'am, yeah
Your budget should only be according to your earning. Or projected earning. Anything else and we might only be deceiving ourselves.
Thank you for sharing this with us.