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Budgeting 101

Dollars & Diagnosis

Personal Finance 101

The fundamentals of budgeting, adapted for your reality.

The Formula

Income - Expenses =
Cash Flow

Alignment

Align spending with your current values and priorities.

Breathing Room

Use small cuts to create financial breathing room.

Budgeting Strategy Waterfall

1

Acknowledge Difficulty

Acknowledge that budgeting is difficult, especially during cancer treatment.

2

The Golden Rule

The basic rule is still more money in and less money out, even when the execution is hard.

3

Expense Triage

Triage expenses by eliminating, deprioritizing, or postponing what you safely can.

4

Categorization

Separate fixed versus variable expenses and essential versus non-essential spending.

Interactive Expense Triage

Click on the non-essential expenses to cut them and see how much breathing room you can create.

Fixed / Essential(Hard to cut)

Rent / Mortgage$1200
Health Insurance$400
Utilities$150
Groceries$400

Variable / Non-Essential(Click to cut)

Potential Monthly Savings:+$0