{"id":620574,"date":"2026-04-21T03:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:50:35","slug":"expert-shares-how-to-budget-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620574\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Shares How To Budget In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Third, keep it simple and consistent. You don\u2019t need a perfect system, you need a system you\u2019ll actually stick to every single month,” Anthony advises.<\/p>\n

So if you find that your budget isn’t working for you, you’re allowed to make some changes! A budget isn’t set in stone, and the budgeting method<\/a> that works for someone else might not really fit your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And don’t beat yourself up if an unexpected expense comes through and wrecks your plans. We’ve all been there, and it’s a normal part of budgeting, too. Instead of throwing out your budget, keep track of where your money went, and make a new plan for how you’ll go forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Third, keep it simple and consistent. You don\u2019t need a perfect system, you need a system you\u2019ll actually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,27042,99,5623,186,1625,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-620574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-black-content","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-evergreen","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}