<prompt> Human: Im looking for some unique methods you have used to get yourself financially stable.  <response>: I dont understand what youre really looking for. Budgeting essentially at its core is about finding out where your money goes by monitoring your transactions.Fixed BillsDiscretionary Spending MoneyDebtSavingsYou tally it all up, break them down into a of your income and try to cut back where you can and save more to start living on last months paycheck. Whatever method you use, at its core its the same. Income - Expenses Surplus. Surplus goes into savingsinvestments, debt or spending. Up to you what you want to do with it and what your priorities are. Budgeting is just a way of trackingcategorizing your expenses. This is why people opt for the envelope method physical budget and software mental budget.I use my own software and update the transactions into a list and tag them so I can actually view them based off the tags I give them. These can cross between various different categories to give me an idea as to where I can cut back if necessary. Example: Ive got eating out tagged as Food Social Dining Credit, Movies as Social Entertainment Movies Credit, and Groceries as Food GroceriesCredit. I can view how much Im spending for food in general and how much is groceries only. Every category is automatically generated as its own tag to ensure that I can itemize absolutely everything, but I can broaden it out as well which is a nice functionality to have. I can also keep track of what payment methods I use for them which allows me to identify how to balance my cashcredit.Note: This only changes my reporting and youd likely get the same out of entering this all into an excel sheet, itll just take more time. 