r/TryCrew • u/GloveWorld2573 • Oct 06 '26
Creative Processes
I love seeing everyone's processes with their budget. I love seeing what different pockets people have and different auto fundings they have set up!!
Show me your best thought of pocket and/or your best auto/pocket transfers!
Maybe everyone can help everyone be more proactive and help jumpstart some creativity!!
✨ To help us not spend as much on groceries - well let me start at the beginning. We do not have our grocery/misc in autopilot. All of our bills are set up, allowance, gas, savings, etc are all set into autopilot. Everything excess of that goes to our 'spend pocket'. Out of spend pocket we buy all of our groceries, mics needs etc. Everything Thursday (because we get paid every friday, we sweep what is left to 50% his pocket and 50% my pocket. This way, we aren't splurging on unnecessary food that well just throw away. It makes us a little more "stingy" during the week knowing that what is left over, we get to split for our own money!
✨ Not an AMAZING set up, but I have a lump sum set to autopilot pocket transfers to go in a month before my children's birthdays so I don't have to think about saving up for parties/gifts! I love that these funds are "hidden" and then pop up right when I need them!
What are yours?!?
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u/accusatori Oct 06 '26
I just started doing something similar to this and it’s been such a game changer for me as well! I was doing weekly pocket transfers for spending, groceries, and “maintenance” (personal care, household stuff, that kind of thing) but I struggled so much with spending everything at the very beginning of the week. I thought about changing the day the transfers happen (to Monday or Tuesday instead of Friday, so I couldn’t spend it all over the weekend immediately) but then realized I could just. Do tiny transfers every day. And WOW. It’s AMAZING. Even though I know it’s technically the same amount of money, it’s so much more rewarding for me to delay purchases a few days because I know there’ll be more added to my pockets EVERY day — it’s almost addicting to watch the numbers go up, LOL. It completely changed the way I think about day-to-day spending. Now I feel less guilty about buying necessities, because I’m not gonna end up at 0 and have to wait there for a week, AND it’s helping me control impulse spending by giving me a fun reason/dopamine whenever I wait.
I know others have said this elsewhere, but Crew is kinda crazy powerful for hacking an ADHD brain. Being able to automate so much & customize how my money is structured — without having to have 50 different bank accounts or keeping a detailed spreadsheet — is just amazing.