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One key difference is that traditional envelope budgeting often overlooks fixed expenses like rent, mortgage,
utility bills, and other regular payments. These fixed costs are crucial and must be accounted for to have a
complete picture of your finances. Actual Budget ensures that every fixed or variable expense is
considered. This comprehensive approach makes AB much more effective than the traditional cash-stuffing method.
considered. This comprehensive approach makes Actual Budget much more effective than the traditional cash-stuffing method.

A significant advantage of using Actual Budget is increased awareness of expenses.
Knowing where every penny of your money is spent is a decisive step towards financial control and stability.
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A popular saying is all your money should have a "job".

One dollar (or whatever your currency is) may be used for Netflix while the next dollar may be for savings.
Giving every dollar a job forces you to be honest about where you money is going because each dollar can
Giving every dollar a job forces you to be honest about where your money is going because each dollar can
only have one job.


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**How to plan for irregular expenses**

1. **Identify Irregular Expenses**: List of all large, infrequent expenses you expect throughout the year.
1. **Identify Irregular Expenses**: Make a list of all large, infrequent expenses you expect throughout the year.
These could be anything from insurance premiums to holiday gifts.
2. **Break Down Annual Costs**: Calculate the total annual cost for each expense.
3. **Divide into Monthly Savings**: Divide the annual cost by 12 to determine how much you need to save each month.
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**Ease of tracking**: When you use debit or credit cards, all your transactions are automatically recorded
in your bank statement. Bank and credit card statement statements provide a detailed history of your
in your bank statement. Bank and credit card statements provide a detailed history of your
transactions, including the date, amount, and merchant. This makes it much easier to track your spending without
having (to remember) to manually enter each transaction whenever you make a purchase or get income.
Most financial institutions will let you export your transactions as CSV files,
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Read more about [managing credit cards](/docs/budgeting/credit-cards) with Actual Budget.


## An detailed example of how to do Zero-Sum budgeting
## A detailed example of how to do Zero-Sum budgeting


Let's say your total monthly income of January is € 1 200. You get your money on the 1st. Using Zero-Based Budgeting,
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