Comments on: My Guest Post on 20SomethingFinance: Budgeting with Envelopes http://howtostayafloat.com/2009/07/my-guest-post-on-20somethingfinance-budgeting-with-envelopes.html/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Your money, your life Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dustin @ Inzolo http://howtostayafloat.com/2009/07/my-guest-post-on-20somethingfinance-budgeting-with-envelopes.html/#comment-52 Dustin @ Inzolo Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:44:06 +0000 http://www.howtostayafloat.com/?p=85#comment-52 I've tried cash envelopes a few times, but we generally run into problems when we forget to take the grocery envelope with us shopping, it is too much work to run back home with 3 small kids. We just want to get it done. So we end up using the debit card and we still have the cash in the envelope. Also, if my wife keeps the grocery envelope and asks me to pick up something from the store on the way home from work, that tends to break the system as well. We finally just gave up on the whole cash system and went back to debit cards. I wrote Inzolo.com because I love the envelope system, but like I said, we struggled with the cash part of it. I’ve tried cash envelopes a few times, but we generally run into problems when we forget to take the grocery envelope with us shopping, it is too much work to run back home with 3 small kids. We just want to get it done. So we end up using the debit card and we still have the cash in the envelope. Also, if my wife keeps the grocery envelope and asks me to pick up something from the store on the way home from work, that tends to break the system as well.

We finally just gave up on the whole cash system and went back to debit cards. I wrote Inzolo.com because I love the envelope system, but like I said, we struggled with the cash part of it.

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