I’m tracking expenses… now what? Step by step plan to optimize spending

Tracking expenses is the first stepstone to budgeting, building wealth, and all other fancy financial applications. But for some reason, it is not an easy transition.

I clearly remember my frustration about 3 months after I started to track my expenses. I was staring at the computer monitor on the neat rows of numbers. The number themselves don’t tell me what to do, where to move. Do I save enough? How can I see the progress? What do I need to work on in terms of money behavior?

In this post, I provide the strategy I eventually follow. It was not a straight path, and I had a lot of tries and fails, but looking back, here is what I would have suggested myself in the very beginning.

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