Sean Pyles

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Hey Elizabeth, what is your biggest hurdle when it comes to tracking your expenses?

You know, I'm right there with you.

But fortunately, there are lots of budgeting apps that try to make this easy for you, although sometimes it's a little bit more difficult when the rubber actually hits the road with these apps.

Welcome to NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast, where you send us your money questions and we answer them with the help of our genius nerds.

I'm Sean Piles.

I can relate to any administrative hurdle leaving me to quickly abandon my budgeting.

So I'm right there with you, listener.

So to help us answer this listener's question, we are joined by personal finance nerd Amanda Barroso.

Hey, Amanda, welcome back to Smart Money.

What, those aren't all needs?

What do you mean?

The bluey rain boots are really important.

Yeah, I mean, this question really gets to some of the practical, really tactical issues of using budgeting apps.

How do you sort out your expenses when you have so many, maybe within one single purchase?

Because especially when you are going to a Target or going to a Costco, you might have different categories in one single spend, like our listener described, like

When I go to Costco, I'm getting myself a really nice rotisserie chicken for dinner.

But then there's always some viral product that I want to get.

Like, did you guys see that gigantic jar of peaches?