Adding expenses
Not all of the money you spend in a given month goes towards your debts - there are other recurring expenses that you have to pay just to survive. Rent (but not a mortgage! That's a debt!), gas, food, electricity, water, movie rentals, and so on. You have to spend the money or else you're not going to make it to the next month. Especially not without food.
Some of those debts will be fixed (rent is always the same, magazine subscriptions are always the same), and some are variable (food is variable, gas is variable). For the variable expenses, you should type in whatever you want to budget for it. Debtinator won't chastise you for spending $100 on movies every month - you do what you have to do. Note, however, that enforcing that you stick to that budget is outside the realm of this program. We recommend the envelope method.
To add an expense:
- Click on the expenses tool button (the dollar bill with the orange arrow going up and away).
- Click the large '+' in the lower left.
- Fill in the expense's information.