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A Simple Way to Split Your Salary Into Three Accounts

Bills, savings and spending do different jobs. Keeping them in separate places makes the month easier to read and harder to overspend.

بقلم Marcus Okafor1 دقيقة قراءة
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Most overspending is not a discipline problem. It is a visibility problem. When bills, savings and daily spending all share one account, it is hard to know what is truly free to spend. Splitting the salary fixes much of that on its own.

The three jobs of money

Keep one account for fixed costs like rent, utilities and instalments. Keep a second for savings and goals, and move money there first, not last. Leave a third for everyday spending. When the spending account is the only one you watch day to day, the limit becomes obvious.

Automate the transfers on payday so the split happens before you can spend against it. A plan that depends on willpower at the end of the month rarely survives the month.

Start rough, then refine

The exact percentages matter less than the separation. Begin with a simple split, watch it for two months, then adjust. A budget you can actually see is far more useful than a perfect one you ignore.

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