Amanda Barroso

Target is household stuff.

Amazon is miscellaneous or it's shopping.

You know, in all of these budgeting apps, there's some of those little categories that are like

Other, you could set a rule for yourself within this.

Okay, I'm only going to itemize receipts if they're over $100.

Anything else, it's 25 bucks, whatever, right?

Again, personal to you, you could set your own threshold, but this could be a way to kind of lessen that fatigue.

Okay.

The third option, it might appeal to parents.

You could create a family flex category in your budget that contains all your target runs, your Costco hauls, your Amazon orders, whatever that may be.

You could fund this intentionally each month.

Again, you'd probably need to look back and see how much generally you're spending monthly at these stores.

So you'd care less about the exact category.

that the items are falling under.

You just know this is sort of my threshold for all of these stores, our household kind of expenses.

And I just don't want to go over that amount every month.

So you could avoid burnout that way.

We have a joint credit card where we put our household and shared expenses and we get travel points that way.

So we like to kind of consolidate it that way.

And we have a limit for what we want to spend there each month.