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#470 - added section on Pay Yourself First strategy #473

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A go at #470

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youngcw commented Oct 18, 2024

I think it would be good to give a brief example of how to do this, not just what it is. Also my blog post from last year shows how I do this with templates if you want to link there.

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Good point! I see where you are coming from and I did think about adding a brief example.

However - I wanted to keep it as short as the Month Ahead strategy. For now, I'll add an example and also link to the blogpost. I'll see if I also can add a brief example in the month ahead paragraph.

@RubenOlsen RubenOlsen changed the title [WIP] #470 - added section on Pay Yourself First strategy #470 - added section on Pay Yourself First strategy Oct 23, 2024
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Minor nit for consistency

and selecting the "Hold for next month" option. You can read more about this on the budgeting page
and selecting the *Hold for next month* option. You can read more about this on [the budgeting page](/docs/budgeting/).

For example, if you make € 3,000 this month, instead of spending it on this month's bills, you save it and use it to
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We should probably keep to $ as the currency of choice in the docs, just to standardise.

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are we consistent other places?

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AFAIK we are not consistent in other places.

I see the point of being consistent here :-)

I'll fix this and also go through the rest of the documentation to see if this is an issue other places.

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