Well I didn't think about it before now but hey, if I wanna self actualize I could get my character drawn by all my favorite artists!
Well, the active ones at least. I gotta be real though, I've been saying "I can afford it" too often lately without looking that closely at finances. I gotta budget!
How the hell do I budget! Well it's kinda interesting. Financially I'm not part of the 99%, and I attributed that a lot to extreme purchasing anxiety.
I did calorie/value calculations for some of my first purchases as a child - vending machine purchases. I ate a lot of peanuts out of a sense of fear for (or duty to?) my financial future.
So that's crazy. The next best solution I've found is YNAB. It gives me the tools to leverage that obsessiveness by categorizing _every_ purchase.
But it's... tiresome. Hours of manual entry if you don't work on it all that often, and I certainly don't.
So let's change it up! Using the Poorman 50/30/20 rule, 30% of my finances can go to dining out and entertainment.
I'm thinking... furry thoughts maybe half an hour of the day, so... to financially reflect the mental energy I put in, I should spend 0.625% of my salary on commissions! Cool huh?
That doesn't sound like much, but over a year well... I think it's actually a logical number! If you made 60k a year, that'd be 375$ which is like, two big commissions! Maybe? Still don't know much how pricing shakes out.
To be continued!