Please enable JavaScript to continue!

YNAB Wins
All Topics

Community

Announcements

About this Forum

Journals

Community Challenges

Managing Debt

YNAB Wins

Investing & Retirement

Saving

Small Business

Student Life

Parenting

Travel

Money & Relationships

Tips & Tricks

API

Q&A

App Functions

Getting Started

Method & Budgeting

Accounts & Transactions

Credit Cards

Budgeting on Mobile

Debt

Bank Importing

Bugs

Web

iOS

Android

Help Docs

Community Guide

Miscellaneous

Credit Cards & Debt

Accounts and Transactions

Reports

Quick Start

Budgeting

Follow

Sharing the Love of Budgeting With Others
My wife and I are in our twenties and she maintains many friendships from high school. Many of those friends do not look at their finances and have the predicable problems in life.…
- Doc McCoy
- Research Engineer
- abuster
- 2 wk ago
- 7 replies
- 117
- Doc McCoy9 min ago
- YNAB Wins
Getting real with myself
The win for me was getting real with myself. I would Swan around talking myself, I just buy gas and groceries, I am good! I will skip telling you how long a time I told myself that.…
- Cyan Violin
- Cyan_Violin.1
- 10 hrs ago
- 2 replies
- 16
- 2
- Doc McCoy13 min ago
- YNAB Wins
A Bittersweet Win and a Win I Thought Was Impossible
I started using YNAB in July 2016 and, as any of you who read my journal on the old forum remember, that summer SUCKED for me. I hated using it. I had no money and YNAB was quick to inform me this…
- slightlysmall
- slightlysmall
- 5 days ago
- 2 replies
- 95
- 4
- slightlysmallyesterday
- YNAB Wins
First Win!
Hi, rellatively new at ynab and today I had my first big (for me at least) win. There is a concert I really want to go, I knew about this since 2 months ago so I started budgetting for it in advance,…
- Marco Guzman
- marcocss
- 4 days ago
- 3 replies
- 75
- 7
- Silver Rhythm2 days ago
- YNAB Wins
What did you do to improve your finances today?
This was one of my favourite threads on the old forum, and since there doesn't seem to be one here yet, I thought I'd create one :-)
- Winterlover
- Welmoed
- 5 mths ago
- 295 replies
- 6241
- 16
- Winterlover3 days ago
- YNAB Wins
This Canadian just closed her US dollar account
It took some convincing but I just closed my US dollar account. I'm in Canada where it's possible to have accounts in both Canadian and US dollars and I felt very fancy with my two accounts where I…
- Marilla Wex
- Full-time actor with highly fluctuating income!
- marillawex
- 5 days ago
- 3 replies
- 39
- 3
- HappyDance5 days ago
- YNAB Wins
I'm 11 days in and loving it!
Hello YNABers - I'm a n00b and on a massively variable income. Don't let your kids be actors, friends! I had a couple of decent paycheques and am super-psyched about having all my categories covered…
- Marilla Wex
- Full-time actor with highly fluctuating income!
- marillawex
- 7 days ago
- 6 replies
- 88
- 5
- Marilla Wex5 days ago
- YNAB Wins
First Week Accomplishments
Hey YNAB Community - I hope this post finds you all well. I got my email to post my 'first week success' so I am excited to share, even only a few people read it - it's really to document my progress…
- Ross Jeazy
- Debt free is the way to be.
- rossJeazy
- 2 wk ago
- 2 replies
- 92
- 10
- Ross Jeazy12 days ago
- YNAB Wins
Two-year YNAB Anniversary!
I had no idea how stressed I was about money until I was forced to give every dollar a name. I started YNAB on July 9, 2016, in my slowest season of freelance work. But I trusted my new budget.…
- slightlysmall
- slightlysmall
- 1 mth ago
- 5 replies
- 228
- 9
- Ross Jeazy2 wk ago
- YNAB Wins
First Week Wins
Got an email from Jesse suggesting I share the highs from the first week. It took me almost a week to wrap my head around the philosophy of use (which would be a great document to be created) but…
- Doc McCoy
- Research Engineer
- abuster
- 2 wk ago
- 2 replies
- 69
- 4
- Ross Jeazy2 wk ago
- YNAB Wins
Bucket List - What's on yours?
Hi all! People that (want to) work at YNAB have to submit a Bucket List of 50 items. I'm curious to learn what would be on your bucket list? :-)
- Winterlover
- Welmoed
- 1 mth ago
- 16 replies
- 843
- 1
- Amy H4 wk ago
- YNAB Wins
Being aware when a service raises its price
One thing I under-appreciate about YNAB is how it makes me very aware of price increases. When I see something raise the price as I'm reviewing new charges like a newspaper subscription or insurance…
- salty
- salty
- 1 mth ago
- 147
- 5
- YNAB Wins
A noob at YNAB but a long-time mediocre budgeter...
So I had Money 2006 which hasn't had support or update in years and when I got a new laptop, I didn't want to install that old program because it had honestly lost the functionality of budgeting with…
- Orchid Belle
- Orchid_Wrench.1
- 1 mth ago
- 1 reply
- 126
- 3
- Frugalflamesfan1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
3 weeks in
I am three weeks into YNAB and for the first time ever I feel as though I have a sense of my financial situation. I have, for the past number of years, been living an erratic financial life - making…
- Orchid Yeti
- Orchid_Yeti
- 1 mth ago
- 3 replies
- 728
- 6
- Coral Hammerhead1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
Recognition in the elevator
I was wearing my YNAB tee-shirt yesterday. While riding the elevator, a colleague told me she was a YNABber as well. We are taking over the world! I count this as a victory.
- rolltide
- Vita, epulum! Famescenti tamen plurimi miseri!
- rolltide
- 3 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 313
- 9
- Orchid Belle1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
1st week, YNAB wins
I'm amazed at I can now assign a job to each dollar I spend and know exactly where the money is going. I set a goal of saving $400 a month. So each day I transfer $15 from my checking account to my…
- Cliff McKee
- Sales Rep
- Moneymaster1
- 1 mth ago
- 2 replies
- 189
- 4
- slightlysmall1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
BUDGET TEMPLATE!! YES , it works!
I was having such a hard time understanding YNAB, because it is so unlike any other method of budgeting. I finally tried a Budget Template, because I needed to see how far off my spending "wants" are…
- Magenta Foal
- Magenta_Foal.1
- 1 mth ago
- 14 replies
- 579
- 5
- Sea Green Sidewinder1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
Early retirement for our second car
Hi there! Our second car was slated for decommissioning by the end of the year. That horizon was pushed forward yesterday when the old girl was diagnosed with a terminal transmission problem.…
- Beige Banjo
- Sailor of topographic oceans
- Beige_Banjo.1
- 3 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 306
- 5
- Navy Blue Storm1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
I avoided going over budget and I know how much money I have
I've been using YNAB for like a week, and it's been great. I'm kinda mad at myself for not just getting it when my friend told me about it in the first place.…
- Blue Foal
- Blue_Foal.1
- 1 mth ago
- 1 reply
- 102
- 7
- Pikayo1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
I finally (FINALLY) have a real buffer. Now... how do I safeguard it?
I've been using YNAB for years, from the spreadsheet days. A couple of times, we just edged into buffer territory, but both times we managed it, a small crisis or a bad day at the office knocked us…
- Dave
- Budgeteer
- HappyDave
- 3 mths ago
- 19 replies
- 732
- 3
- HappyDance1 mth ago
- YNAB Wins
YNAB Wins at 2 weeks
When I first put in my income and transactions I had $300 to put toward future expenses. It scared me. What am I missing? Just got my second pay check and put that in to YNAB.…
- Forest Green Saxophone
- Forest_Green_Saxophone.1
- 3 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 953
- 7
- Lavender Pony2 mths ago
- YNAB Wins
Weathering the storm
We recently had a win that I'd like to share. This month we'll be a one-income household because DH is traveling and won't get paid until after he returns.…
- Gold Trombone
- Gold_Trombone
- 2 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 175
- 5
- Pikayo2 mths ago
- YNAB Wins
Is this freedom?
I’ve been using YNAB for a week. Previously I was an impulse buyer whose money was always frittered away on small stuff. Bills were always paid on time,…
- QC
- HaplessFinanceProfessional
- Queenofcoin
- 2 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 261
- 7
- Pikayo2 mths ago
- YNAB Wins
No new credit debt, not this time!
Hi all, My partner has to travel across the U.S. to visit his mom who has been in the hospital recovering from a stroke. It was a big sudden expense we hadn't planned on.…
- Navy Blue Unicorn
- Science is real.
- Navy_Blue_Unicorn_6d071
- 2 mths ago
- 4 replies
- 181
- 6
- Navy Blue Unicorn2 mths ago
- YNAB Wins
Saved $10K in less than a year
I first tried YNAB almost two years ago but abandoned it because I didn't quite get it. I decided to try it again in August. I don't know if I just hadn't read the guide correctly the last time,…
- Steph B
- If not now, when?
- Powder_Blue_Mask
- 2 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 253
- 8
- Cornflower Blue Filly (35a9d699c640)2 mths ago
- YNAB Wins

1 2 3 4 Next

Back to top

Start Your Free YNAB Trial

Important Links

Community Guidelines

Feature Requests

Categories

View all topics

Top Contributors

Help Docs

Still have a question? Want to view the official guide on your topic?

Go to Help Docs

YNAB.

Follow YNAB to get support and lots of great ideas on budgeting

Powered by Forumbee