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Give Every Dollar a Job: The Only Budget We Recommend | MMG-Ep 004

Today we talk about how important it is to give every dollar a job, and why.

If you get paid on Friday and you’re broke by Wednesday, this episode is for you.

We go through the most common budgets out there, the 50/30/20, the envelope system and pay-yourself-first, and the gaps each one leaves. Then I show you step by step how to build a zero-based budget:

every bill, every debt, your emergency fund and even your fun money gets its own row, until you hit zero

you split the month into four balanced weeks, so you never run out of money in any week, whether you’re paid weekly, every two weeks or…

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