My 2026 personal budget is completed. I'm ready.

I am holding discretionary spending relatively steady and increasing savings, investments, and allowance for utility rent, and food cost increases. Hopefully, I will be able to reduce spending on car maintenance, fuel, and auto insurance to help offset those increases. At least that is the plan. I am now at 100% on auto-pay for all bills.

That is all. 📢

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

..."The best-laid schemes of mice and men
Go oft awry,"
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

Still you are blessed, compared with me!
The present only touches you:
But oh! I backward cast my eye,
On prospects dreary!
And forward, though I cannot see,
I guess and fear!

Robert Burns 1785

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@MarkPaul you need that mirror more than most on this site. Yeah there are plenty worse than yourself. Don't hand them one though it might crack.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@MarkPaul yeah I'll leave you be. Yet you're the original poster. I see no problem in that. 😊

LegendofPeza · 61-69, M

Life must be sweet.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@LegendofPeza Well, truth be told I don't really have a right to complain considering everything else going on.

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