Budgeting guides

How to make a paycheck last until the next one. Short, plain, and written for any currency and any pay schedule.

• How to budget paycheck to paycheckA simple way to budget from one paycheck to the next: take bills off the top, set aside what the month needs, and give every week its own amount to spend.
• How to budget a biweekly paycheckPaid every two weeks? Here is how to decide which bills each paycheck covers, what to do in a three-paycheck month, and how to split each check into weekly spending money.
• How to make a weekly budget you will actually keepA weekly budget is easier to keep than a monthly one. How to work out your weekly amount from your paycheck, track it without effort, and recover from a bad week.
• Expense tracker or budget app: which do you need?An expense tracker shows where your money went. A budget app tells you what you can still spend. How the two differ, and how to choose the right financial tracker.