re: Readjusting my budget with new pay schedule

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When you say that you measure your budget via Mint, are you saying that you sort of observe how the budget is unfolding throughout the month? Asked another way, the budget isn't locked in when the month begins? Trying to form a picture different than mine.

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Budget is automatically set monthly for the categories. All accounts linked to Mint and as spending occurs the software categories the spend into a budget category. Software then rolls up that spend against the budget and you can view real-time how you are tracking against budget at any point in the month.

At end of month, it’ll give a small report on how you did. It keeps all the historical budget information so you can look at past periods and see changes month to month. This is all on the app on your phone.

If you login online, you get more capabilities. For example, you could look over the last 6 months and see total planned budget for that time versus actual spend (could be helpful to normalize for irregular spending through off something month to month).