Unless you control your money, making more won’t help. You’ll just have bigger payments. — Dave Ramsey A budget is that necessary, lesser of the two evils, part of our personal finances that we need in order to gain control over our money and our spending. A budget, in simplified terms, is just an itemized summary of income in and expenses out for a specific range of time, typically a month. Almost everyone hears the word budget and automatically starts to think of words like, restricted, boring, limiting, drag, and ugh! I want to put these words on their heads, budgeting should be more about freedom, liberation, efficiency, and future! A budget done correctly will show all the income coming in and all of your expenses that you need to cover. All area of spending should be accounted for and all incoming income as well. A budget needs to be… read more