The BEST category is saving for my annual YNAB subscription renewal!
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
HA! A real holiday 😂 🌻 Hannah
@shanag93595 ай бұрын
"You gotta fight! For your right! To paaaarrrttyyyyyyy! (responsibly using YNAB)" - The Beastie Boys, probably.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 🌻 Hannah
@jennivanhart30165 ай бұрын
We have TWO Christmas Categories, one called Christmas Magic - covers the real tree, new lights or inflatable (my husband and daughter have an addiction), wrapping paper, chocolate for the advent calendar house, candy canes for the tree, the annual family decoration, and gingerbread houses to build. The other is the Christmas Surprises Under the Tree for gifts for all and everyone. It is so freeing going into the season knowing all those things are covered.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh, I thought about a chocolate advent calendar this year. We always got them as kids and I can't wait to do one with our little guy! These all sound like such FUN expenses and traditions! Love it!! And I AGREE! I love being able to spend guilt free and know that it's not throwing off any other part of our plan. Quite freeing! 🌻 Hannah
@newcreation195 ай бұрын
I thought “another video from YNAB on holiday savings? Do I need to watch this? In February?!” and then “well, it’s Hannah, soooo yes”. 😂 Well worth it! Thanks for the fun ideas for year-round parties!! I could definitely stand to create another category or two for “holiday shenanigans” 🤔
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
WHAT CAN I SAY, I love me some holidays. 🌻 Hannah
@Melanierose.8215 ай бұрын
Hannah, don't forget Halloween as your family grows (if you celebrate). Besides candy and decorations you'll want to get costumes by September or it's slim pickings. I've learned from my procrastination.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
Good to know! Our little guy was around for Halloween this year and we just bought him a little ghost patterned sleeper and called it a day 😂 I feel like we have one more year of him not caring before it's time to up the Halloween savings 🙃 🌻 Hannah
@Melanierose.8215 ай бұрын
@@YNABofficialit's our family's favorite holiday!
@Mare007115 ай бұрын
One of my favorites is saving for a tax professional every year. Well worth the savings.
@joliechabot74895 ай бұрын
Yup! I pay $400/year for H & R Block to do my taxes for me. I absolutely love the peace of mind and ease. Lmao 😂 a million times worth it and I know they get me money that I would miss because I don't know what I'm doing.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
We've had some internal convos about that lately here at YNAB! Our life has been pretty simple this past year (just added one kiddo!), so we can get away with using something like FreeTaxUSA. But other coworkers added multiple kids, lived in multiple states, sold and bought houses, ran their own businesses-they SWEAR by hiring the tax professional for peace of mind more than anything! 🌻 Hannah
@beckybarrett74525 ай бұрын
I have a grandson activity category. This weekend I’m taking them to a Lego event. if I take them to a random movie any Saturday or pick them up from school and take them for donuts. I have the money set aside to do it.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
I'll have to share this idea with my mom if she doesn't already do it! She has 12 grandkids (15 by this summer!), and likes to do special outings with them for their birthdays. As you can imagine, that adds up FAST. Another category just for fun, spontaneous outings would be so fun! 🌻 Hannah
@randallcoy40215 ай бұрын
“…whose cerebral cortex has barely come out of the packaging.” 😂
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
🙃🐣🧠 🌻 Hannah
@alarichaag52475 ай бұрын
Are they packaged in GORE-TEX? 😝
@gregcampbell44675 ай бұрын
Around here, Halloween house decorating and costumes and treats might eclipse most of the rest combined.
@lisaroper4215 ай бұрын
Yes! Halloween is my favorite!!
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
My husbands as well! Me, not so much. This year we agreed on buying a 10pk of tiny 16-inch skeleton figurines to hide all about the porch and it was SO CUTE. We also strung some purple and orange lights, which I can get behind. I'm more of a Casper the Friendly Ghost vibes kinda person 😂 Cute, not scary. 🌻 Hannah
@yarnstead5 ай бұрын
Right now I have all my holidays and gifting in one category called Celebrate, but it’s a great idea to break them out!
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
I bet most keep them condensed down to one category, but the really nerdy ones like us break them out! 🌻 Hannah
@perfectlyposhbyheatherbara93615 ай бұрын
Love the Holiday Shenanigans name! We have categories for each holiday separate but I would like to combine them to simplify things. For Christmas we also plan for cards and postage - this adds up! We keep it separate from our gifting category. We also plan for a nice meal around Easter and Christmas this way if we decide to go to a brunch, we don’t have to stress taking it out of our weekend money. We know we can plan for a splurge type of meal.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
That is smart! We got so many Christmas cards this year and I thought "wow, that is really a whole expense, isn't it?" Would be VERY smart to have a category to pay for those cards and stamps, and potentially even a photography if you like to hire out for those photos! 🌻 Hannah
@emerly354 ай бұрын
Genuinely gobsmacked. Makes much more sense than a general gift pool. With that method, if you spend too much on one person, then you have little left over for the other. However, this video's method negates all that.
@YNABofficial4 ай бұрын
Yes! Gobsmackage is the goal 😂 🌻 Hannah
@bumbleBEE212.5 ай бұрын
I already do this so great minds thank alot! It came in handy when co workers retired....3 this year alone
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
WOW! You're so generous to celebrate with coworkers! I love that! 🌻 Hannah
@Coconuthead855 ай бұрын
‘I YNAB it’ ❤ it, Hannah
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
Just verbing nouns over here 🙃 🌻 Hannah
@xrpjon_9985 ай бұрын
OMG!!! this video is perfect for my Fiance lmao 🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅 Thank you!! I shared it with her
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
Gift givers and holiday lovers unite! 🌻 Hannah
@wpuymac5 ай бұрын
Haha I just counted and we already have 28 categories for this purpose and that’s because I consolidated it down recently from 32.
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
AMAZING!! 👏👏👏 Beat me by a LANDSLIDE! 😂 🌻 Hannah
@nicolem63205 ай бұрын
Only 10 categories?? Oh pull up a chair as I tell you all about my Yearly Events and Birthdays group which has 17 categories and my Christmas group which (coincidentally) also has 17 categories
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂 Wait wait wait, so you have THIRTY FOUR categories just for holidays?! You are my new role model. 🌻 Hannah
@darkphoenix68075 ай бұрын
Is “Get out the Way” your car expenses? 😂
@Coconuthead855 ай бұрын
I am curious about that too. What a cute name
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
HA! Great question! A lot of the time I make dummy budgets to demonstrate different concepts in my videos. I wanted to keep this budget super clean for demo purposes, so I dropped $20k in the checking account, but you'll notice I only assigned a little over $200 of those dollars to the different holiday categories. The other $19k+ I just moved into that category to literally get it out of the way of my demonstration and not raise more questions (though it appeared to still do that 😂 ) 🌻 Hannah
@Natazavrik5 ай бұрын
Did peanut arrive yet?
@YNABofficial5 ай бұрын
Oh, peanut for sure arrived! KZfaq World lags a few months behind Real World, so he's actually quite a bit older than you'd probably think! Main nicknames include Mr Man, Big Boy, Cheeks, and Brother (despite the fact that he has no siblings, just Julep 🙃). Oh, and Knucklehead. You can imagine that one comes into play quite often 😂 🌻 Hannah
@Natazavrik4 ай бұрын
@@YNABofficial AWWWW YAY YAY YAY!! Congratulations to mom, dad and Julep! ❤️❤️❤️