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The Nguyen-Walsh Household

Safe to spend this week

$195

We've allowed for your bills ($1,144/wk), essential everyday spending, $88/wk toward annual expenses, and $160/wk toward your savings goals.

Household income
$1,988/wk
/week · $103,350/yr
Regular bills
$1,144/wk
/week · $59,494/yr
Everyday spending
$479/wk
/week · $24,928/yr

Two accounts, not one budget

This tool works best as a way to physically separate your money, not just track it on screen. Most of what it calculates is only true once the money it's talking about is actually somewhere you can't casually spend it.

Bills & annual account

Bills, annual sinking funds, savings goals and extra debt payments — transferred here each payday and left alone.

Everyday account

Whatever's left — your safe-to-spend figure above. If it's in here, it's genuinely yours to use.

Transfer into your bills & annual account

Your bills plus annual sinking funds need approximately $1,294.19/week, including a 5% buffer.

$2,588.38 per fortnightly pay

Set up an automatic transfer to a separate account each payday, the moment your pay lands — before it has a chance to blur into everyday spending.

Where your money goes

Weekly amounts across your household income of $1,988.

Housing
$644
Food
$364
Children
$180
Savings goals
$160
Financial
$155
Transport
$125
Unallocated buffer
$116
Annual expenses
$88
Other
$155
Housing · 32%Food · 18%Children · 9%Savings goals · 8%Financial · 8%Transport · 6%Unallocated buffer · 6%Annual expenses · 4%Other · 8%
Sample household · Household Budget