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Financial Adulting
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Field Challenge

Build Your Real Monthly Budget

Pull your actual bank and card statements for the last month and categorize every dollar. Then write a going-forward budget.

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Pull your bank statements for the last 30 days

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Categorize every expense: housing, food, transportation, subscriptions, entertainment, savings, other

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Identify your biggest surprise (the category that was higher than you thought)

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Write a forward-looking budget based on what you actually spend

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Share your biggest finding

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What surprised you most? What one change will you make based on what you found?

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