<prompt> Human: Out of curiosity...I pretty much never see donations as a line item on the budgets posted on here. Interested in serious responses: why arent you budgeting donations?Edit: for those who say I cant afford it or Im selfish, what about tax benefits? Are those compelling enough to budget for donations?  <response>: Honestly, when people post budgets here that have that in about 75 of the time it turns into a little flame war here. Some people do have charity in their budget. Some opt not to mention it when they post here. I put charity in my first budget out of college alongside student loan payments and Roth IRA and its worked out well because Ive never missed that money since I never considered it mine to begin with and have steadily increased it with income increases. If someone is suffering from debilitating debt I would argue for forgoing charity while thats taken care of. But otherwise, if you consider charity a priority, I believe it should absolutely be budgeted for.See also: My posts in this thread seem to have pissed someone off so much theyre going through my comment history and downvoting completely reasonable, even factual responses to other posts. Nice. 