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Nick Kaylor

How Credit Cards Work in YNAB

Using a credit card in YNAB (and real life!) is like having a layover rather than a nonstop flight for your money.

Nick Kaylor

How to Solve 9 Common YNAB Challenges

Navigating how to use YNAB can sometimes be unclear and confusing. Let's help you get the hang of it and unlock it's full potential.

Nick Kaylor

Be the Driver of Your Finances, Not a Passenger

When it comes to our money, we should strive for continual awareness and intentionality to ensure our decisions align with our priorities.

Nick Kaylor

Your Budget Never Has a Normal Month

There is no such thing as a normal month, despite what we keep telling ourselves. In order to budget better, we need to face this reality.

Nick Kaylor

9 Ways YNAB Helped Us Budget Better

How could the way we budget be so impactful? Because YNAB is more than expense tracking, more than income forecasting, and more than a...

Nick Kaylor

A Better Way to Save Your Money

Have we been thinking about our savings all wrong? Saving is important, but it's more important to know what you're saving for.

Nick Kaylor

Redefine What Budgeting Means to You

Does budgeting conjure up feelings of sacrificing freedom and wistful happiness for restriction and stern frugality? Scrap that.

Nick Kaylor

What Is Your True Monthly Budget?

When we sit down to write a budget, what are we typically doing? We look at what we expect to make and spend in a given month. We outline...

Nick Kaylor

Have You Already Spent Your Next Paycheck?

If you use a credit card, tell me if this spending pattern sounds familiar: You buy things with your card, then wait for your next...