Lookin’ Good for my hair and other person care items. Sh** Happens for my emergency fund.

I have one called "All things eye related", have a visually impaired child, is amazing the amount of random eye stuff that is needed or random specialists he needs to see about this that and the other. I say as I type of my large font keyboard, which , as you can guess, was put into "All things eye related" when we bought it.

I also have "crochet Friday" as I'm treasurer for a crochet group, guess what day it's on? lol

I play the Pokémon Trading Card Game competitively so I have a "Pokémon Master" category for all my tournament entry fees, Pokémon campaign prerelease fees, and costs from just buying random packs.

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I don't have a $2 bill category, but I do have a $5 Project in my payee names.  The $5 bill is the smallest paper currency in Canada (everything smaller is a coin). When I reconcile my wallet, I pull out the $5 bills, record a transaction using the payee $5 project, categorized to my Loony Fund, and tuck the $5s into an envelope in my cash stash.  It's remarkable how quickly they multiply.

Banana Stand - for unexpected spending.

There's always money in the banana stand, Michael! (Arrested Development reference)

I have a few odd ones but they don't all fit a theme. 

Render unto Caesar: taxes

Seek Ye First: tithe

Better to Give: gifts to people

Molehill: EF for whacking moles

Mountain: Retirement or disability saving

I don't have anything too crazy in the bulk of my budget, but some of my wish farm ideas might seem a bit odd to the average onlooker (e.g. a canoe, a kiln, and the Camino). I bet there are a host of fun wish farm ideas out there with correspondingly awesome labels.

My “Digital Loonie Bin”.  In Canada $1 coins are called “Loonies” because they have a loon on one side. I used to collect them and put them in a jar. I do this digitally now and set it up as a category in YNAB. When I fund expense categories I always round them up to the nearest $5.  For example , my cell phone costs me $52.50 a month so I fund it as $55. When I pay my cell phone bill I’ll have $2.50 left over which gets moved to the “Loonie Bin”.   I have a “Splurges” category with items like Eating Out, Take Out, iTunes, Kindle Books set-up as non-funded sub-categories. When I want to purchase something in my Splurges category the rule is that I can only make such purchases with money in my Lonnie Bin. Nothing in the Loonie Bin = No splurges until there is. Works great for controlling those types of impulse purchases!

Have just discovered that boy, is my budget boring! The only interesting category at all is that I have borrowed "Shiny" from other YNABers to refer to fun stuff that is quasi-unnecessary. I have a Tech Shiny category and a Home Shiny category. 

"Down with the Sickness" is the category I use for all the extra spending that happens when we are sick.  Especially when my husband is in the hospital.  He's been diagnosed with a complicated and progressive disorder that has resulted in 4 hospital stays in the last 2 years.  There is so much extra eating out during those times.  If we are not prepared for the stay it can also result in an extra walmart run for neccessities.  We live an hour away from our preferred hospital so sometimes it's easier to just run to walmart to get some toiletries then wait to bring stuff up from the house the next day.   I also use this category when I'm stuck at Walmart waiting on medication half in delirium and end up purchasing a new heating pad for $60.  🤐   To be fair that wrap is the best $60 I have spent in years. 

Renamed my "True Expenses" to "winter is comming" and my taxes to "i'm not even getting it". Don't know if they count as weird 😅

I'm super-challenged by budgeting and sticking to it, so I give my category groups/categories positive names.

Affordable Monthly (= regular monthly payments)

Easy to Keep to (= variable monthly spending)

Abundant Funds (= True Expenses)

Safe and Secure Fund  (= Emergency Fund)

Savings Snowflakes (= change jar)

Savings Snowball (when the snowflake balance reaches £1 it gets moved to here).

But now I've read this thread I want to rename the Fun category.  Hmmm... Toy Boys and Cocktails has a certain ring to it, but actually Plant Pots and Library Reservation Fees would be more truthful. 

I've mainly got fun names for my categories:

My Four Walls - Main household bills

Wheels on the Bus - All vehicle related stuff

Fill our Bellies - All food related stuff

Pride and Policies - Insurance related (house, life, rrsp, resp)

Choose Kind - Church, gifts, random giving

Dragging Me Down - bank and interest fees