Welcome to Budget Bootcamp

Week 1 | Day 1 | GB 101: Budget Bootcamp

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Welcome to Goodbudget 101: Budget Bootcamp! We’re so excited for you to start this new budgeting journey — one where you’ll create a budget that works for you. And along the way you’ll build habits and learn techniques that will help you live out your budget for the rest of your life.

Now, we’re all starting from different places financially, but we’re all working towards the same goal… making a budget that works. We believe you can make and *keep* a budget. This budget will be your guide to help you spend on what’s important, save for big expenses, and give generously.

Over the next 29 days you’ll receive bite-sized assignments that are practical, reflective and relational and they’re all designed to help you create your new budget utilizing the envelope budgeting method (if you don’t know what that is, learn about it on our website and on YouTube). You can expect to spend about 5 to 10 minutes doing most of the assignments. Every so often there’ll be a longer assignment that will take about 30 minutes. Let’s get started.

Today’s Assignment

  1. Make a plan for when and where you’d like to do these assignments. Will you spend time working on them at the kitchen table after the kids are in bed, or early in the morning over coffee before everyone gets up? Will you do the assignments for the week all in one day, or divvy them up throughout the week? Deciding this ahead of time will give you a better shot at completing these assignments.
  2. Comment below and let us know when and where you’re planning to do your homework.  Plus, share what you’re excited about learning in this course — and why.

Note for couples: If you share money with someone else, like your spouse, invite them to take this course with you.  By working together, you’ll be able to build a solid budget that actually works — for both of you.

That’s it for today! We look forward to seeing you in the next assignment.

Happy budgeting,
-The Goodbudget Team

P.S. If you’re struggling to get ahead because you’re living paycheck to paycheck, GB 30: Break the Cycle might be a good starting place for you. In that course, you’ll spend 30 days working to boost savings and begin building a one-month cushion so you can break the cycle for good. 

P.P.S. Or, if you’re currently experiencing a financial emergency, either from taking a pay cut, receiving a large medical bill, or something else, GB 911: Crash Course might be a better fit. There, you’ll learn how to make quick changes to your budget so that you can survive in the short term, adapt to your financial situation, and thrive down the road.

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2,261 thoughts on “Welcome to Budget Bootcamp”

  1. I will do my assignments twice a week in the morning. I’ve been on a budget roller-coaster my entire adult life. Actually runaway or completely off the tracks roller-coaster is a more accurate description! I hope to learn and for once consistently stick to a budget in order to save for my future and stop living from paycheck to paycheck

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  2. I will do the assignments daily on the couch with my partner. Looking forward to understanding how budgeting works and get a better handle over our money.

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  3. I will do my assignments early in the morning before the day starts. I will work on the budget Monday. through Friday. I am excited about really being able to create, manage and stay on a budget’

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  4. I plan to work on this at every free time chance. This will be in the mornings that I don’t work, on my lunch bread , and at home after work. I will do as many assignments time will allow at one class session. I’m excited to get ahead of my finances and improve my financial situation. Thanks for this opportunity.

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  5. I plan on doing coursework with my morning coffee when I have a more open mind. I’ll need an open mind to modify my ingrained spending habits, which aren’t rational. I spend as whim takes me, only avoiding catastrophe by not spending more than I have to spend. In fact, it’s getting harder and harder to not to get behind every month. I’m living on a fixed income and inflation has doubled the price of the basics since I retired. I have been using an app called Mint to keep from overspending, but it is being withdrawn in three months. At first I was put off by the inconvenience of learning a new program, but Goodbudget seems to be grounded on the idea of learning to spend rationally according to goals each of us defines ourselves. That seems like a really good idea for me.

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  6. I am planning on working on this on my home office computer. I am looking forward to learning how to stick to a budget and keeping a closer track on my monthly expenses.

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  7. I’ll do the assignments at least once a day between 6 & 7 pm because I’m usually running around or playing my ps4 or PS5. I’m just ready to be able to make a budget and try and stick to it.

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  8. I’m going to do my budget in the morning at my desk, 3 days a week, before I get sucked into the day. I’m excited to get back in control of our money.

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