Kakebo/kakeibo the Japanese art of saving money

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Anyone care to join me trying out this system. It is very much like YNAB but with writing it down.

I’ve got this book and you can fill in your spending for the next year.

There’s a good summary of it here

That sounds really interesting. I’m looking for some way of making my financial goals ‘stick’.

I do YNAB already, and it just seems too easy to move everything between categories, so maybe writing it down would be good.

How much is this book?

About a tenner. It’s 90% stuff to fill in yourself.

Looks great. Where did you get the book from - I would be keen to give a go.

I got it from Amazon

It’s £6.99 atm!

I use YNAB too and it’s helped me budget and get rid of debt for the past 18 months - but I do like a paper version of stuff too.

I might give it a try.

prettymess thank you, I have ordered this. I really need to go over our family finances and I like pen & paper rather than apps to keep track of my spending so fingers crossed this will work well.

My PC refuses this link, so I ask here:

In which way is this different to the traditional houshold account books you get in stationery shops and aisles? Apart from being prettier ...

I suppose it isn’t very different from those.

I’ve bought one, it arrived this morning.

I like it. I currently fill weekly expenditure in a NASUWT diary which isn’t brilliant.

I use YNAB but of course it costs to subscribe - it would be good to get rid of YNAB (& cheaper) if this works!

I have just bought it.

Oooo this looks fab

Would it fit in a handbag? What sort of size is it please ?

Depends on your handbag size! It’s about the size of my iPad mini.

I’m quite excited.

I've just ordered mine, arrives on Tuesday.

I’m starting to fill in my daily spends tomorrow and I’ve got the monthly budget all sorted. Less money available than I would like but we will try our best to stick within that amount.

Also: use pencil!

Intrigued - I'm a ynabber

It is really interesting to see where your money goes!!