This Japanese Budgeting System Is Helping Me Define What Matters in My Life

I’m in my mid-40s and have always hated thinking about money. Enter the Kakeibo system.

Yi Shun Lai
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6 min readJun 22, 2021

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About a year ago, I discovered a worksheet-based budget that allowed me to shed my severe allergy to thinking about money.

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Yi Shun Lai
Forge

Author: A SUFFRAGISTS’S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC (2024), Pin Ups (2020). Former columnist, The Writer. theGooddirt.org Psst: Say “yeeshun.” You can do it!