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ams6110 on July 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting

I just save (401K, HSA, etc.) a set amount from every paycheck, and view the rest as "spendable" and don't worry about accounting for it beyond that.

duaneb on July 19, 2016 [–]

This is a form of personal budgeting, even if you don't view it like that.

dmix on July 19, 2016 | [–]

Yes it's a simple budgeting technique but it's not accounting (particularly accounting as in the context of the article which we are debating).

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