conversation: User (drbadtouchz): "Here's the simple version, I am trying to set up a budget in YNAB. I've added in all of my monthly bills and categorized everything I've spent so far. The problem I have is this, I don't get payed monthly I get payed weekly and the amount is always the same unless I should miss a day of work.\n\nSo what I was doing is adding money in YNAB and categorizing it as January income before I've even received it. Should I not do this?\n\nFor example my monthly bills comes to 1007.43USD but my starting money is only about 528USD. So technically everything is OVER budget because my bills are not all due at the beginning of the month and I have not received my 2nd, 3rd, or 4th paycheck yet. \n\n[This is an example of what I'm talking about](http://imgur.com/s6335cH)\n\nQuick Note: Phone, Internet, and Line of Credit aren't budgeted because I paid them early. This is actually why I'm creating a budget because I'm so gung ho on bills I'll pay them WEEKS before they are due. Internet wasn't due until the 4th of January, I paid it the 16th of December."
  Self: "It's not "unethical". It's just not a good of a tool if you don't use it properly."
  User (drbadtouchz): "How should I better handle this? I want to get the most out of this tool and manage my money the best way possible."
  Kllian (Kllian): "i'm still new to ynab but from what i gather, you want to live on last months income.  you _should_ get paid next week but what if you don't? if you don't have enough to live on last months income, then save until you do."
  