About five years ago we went from a one income family to two.
Color me excited! My kids were in school, I found a job that I loved and I was ready to get back into working (and having adult conversation!).
Enter my big budgeting challenge: how to budget biweekly. Not only had I never been paid biweekly (hello ever changing pay days), but my husband was still get paid semi-monthly.
Some weeks we were both getting paid. Some months I was getting three paychecks instead of two. It threw my previously awesome spreadsheet into dumpster fire status.
After a series of spreadsheet and budgeting systems failures. I finally figured out where I was going wrong and why it all wasn’t working together like I knew it should.
The answer was simple. Ridiculously simple. And it worked.
Thus Dollars that Makes Sen$e was born.