20 Enjoyable Methods to Identify Your YNAB

Do you know you possibly can identify your price range in YNAB? It’s true, you possibly can name each price range in your YNAB account one thing completely different. And for the reason that identify of your price range is so distinguished proper there within the prime left nook of the net app, it’s an amazing alternative to make a joke, give a phrase of inspiration, and even simply allow you to keep organized.

YNABers love all of these issues, and much more, they love speaking about how they arrange their spending plans in YNAB.

So I requested the crew at YNAB and the group over on the YNAB Followers Fb group how they identify their budgets. In celebration of YNAB’s twentieth anniversary (three cheers!), I’ve grouped them into 20 fun-filled classes. We’ve acquired quite a lot of floor to cowl, so let’s get into it.

1. “My Finances”

Lots of people joked that their price range in YNAB remains to be the default “My Finances.” Some individuals didn’t know that you may change your price range identify however didn’t just like the prospect of change. And if that’s you, I would like you to know that’s completely okay! Perhaps you want how it’s—extra energy to you!

2. Alliteration

Alright, this class is extra for me to share the identify of my very own price range, as a result of I believe it’s enjoyable. My final (and first) identify each begin with B, so perhaps alliteration is simply in my blood. The identify of my price range follows swimsuit – “Barlowe Bodacious Finances” has been my identify of selection for the reason that very starting once I began YNAB approach again in 2013.

I assume you may say I’m besotted with baptizing my price range with beguiling ‘B’ phrases as a result of they bring about a lift of brightness to my budgeting bliss. 

3. Your favourite songs

So many individuals referenced their favourite songs in our dialogue on-line. They’re rife with good budget-naming potential. I’ll wrap up just a few of them for you:

• “Finances, Finances Actual Good”
• “Floor Management to Main Funds” 
• “Born to be Wild-ly Accountable” (this was my favourite)
• “Fancy” for Reba McIntire’s well-known track — “Here is your one likelihood Fancy, do not let me down.”

Among the references have been extra of a critical nature. 

• One consumer selected “Rolling within the Deep” as they ready for a divorce.
• One other selected “All by Myself” after dropping their associate.

4. Your emotions on the time

And that leads me to the group of people that named their price range after the best way they have been feeling once they used it. One commenter stated they selected “Expensive God” after YNAB revealed how a lot they have been spending on eating out. 

One other YNABer went with “My New Life” as a result of the YNAB technique had impressed them to construct a brand new life for themselves. One other went with the easy “Excited!” as a result of that’s precisely how they felt once they began their first spending plan!

5. Puns

Puns, oh so many puns. “Purpose Digger” and “Thrifty Shades of Pay” have been a few my favorites. Among the delightfully horrible puns included “Cents and Sensibility” and “Coin-quer the World.”

6. Dates

Alright, we’ve gotten slightly too dad-jokey even for me, so let’s get slightly sensible. Many individuals merely named their budgets based mostly on the date ranges they cowl. Issues like “Present since 1/1/23” and “2022 to current” have been widespread. 

I personally use this technique for my price range names! My lively price range is all the time the alliterative identify I shared above, however any previous budgets all the time embody the date vary. It’s a great way to remain organized once I wish to search for an previous transaction for that random trip spot we’re revisiting after 7 years.

7. Intentions and targets

Essentially the most inspiring price range names by far needed to do with YNABers’ intentions or targets for brand new years. Inspiring entries included:

• 12 months of Insights
• Get that new kitchen
• Cultivating Pleasure
• The yr of debt free
• All issues Shiny & Stunning
• Highway to Retirement

8. Ebook characters

I used to be particularly drawn to the YNABers who named their budgets after their favourite guide characters. One named their price range “Jeeves” after the beloved butler from PG Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and Wooster” collection.

One YNABer selected “Samwise” after everybody’s favourite Lord of the Rings character. My favourite although was a shock. One YNABer named their price range “Scrooge” however not for the miserly model we see at first of A Christmas Carol, however for the reformed beneficiant man we love on the finish.

9. Names portmanteau

Okay, perhaps I selected this class simply because portmanteau is one among my favourite phrases. It means smooshing two phrases collectively, like brunch, spork, guesstimate, and weblog (internet + log, guess you didn’t know that!). 

For those who’re utilizing YNAB with a associate, we suggest a few other ways to arrange your budgets, however when you have a joint price range, smooshing your names collectively simply is sensible. Joanna and Tim name their price range Jim. Perhaps in case your names are Ben and Jennifer, you may go along with the basic Bennifer (it’s gonna be ceaselessly this time).

10. Encouraging phrases

Altering your monetary life is tough, so identify your spending plan one thing that will provide you with slightly choose me up. I liked one YNABer who selected “Phoenix Rising” for a brand new price range they began after a very making an attempt time. One other selected “2024Ever” as a result of “I would like this to be the turning level for the remainder of our lives!”

I additionally noticed “Third time’s the attraction” for a YNABer who was decided to make YNAB work! And one merely went with “Abundance 💰”.

11. One thing apart from “price range”

We’ve used that phrase lots on this weblog, and for a few of you that phrase has a really damaging connotation. One YNABer selected to go along with “Spending Plan” as a result of it feels much less restrictive. With a spending plan, you’re designing the life you need by aligning your classes along with your priorities. Ah, the candy style of freedom.

12. Nickname for {dollars} (or another forex!)

Your price range accommodates your {dollars} all neatly organized into particular digital envelopes prepared and ready to be spent. So it’s solely pure to call your price range for the factor it accommodates. I noticed a number of enjoyable names like this corresponding to “Greenback Bucks,” “Valuable Monies,” and “Ma Billz.”

13. Give it a nickname

A number of YNABers take pleasure in giving their price range a real-life human identify to allow them to reference it prefer it’s an individual.

• “Can we exit to eat tonight? What does Gunda say?” 
• “Verify with Harriet on how a lot we’ve saved for trip.”
• “Do you assume Margaret may budge on the leisure class?”

One consumer mixed the nickname with alliteration, going with “Fiduciary Fred.”

14. Emojis

You already know we love our emojis right here at YNAB. They’ll add slightly enjoyable and colour to your monetary numbers. And emojis are totally supported in price range names too. Among the most enjoyable ones I noticed included “ 🌈☀️” and “Children 😱😱😱.”

15. Quotes

All of us love our most quotable media, so why not embody that in your price range identify? The funniest one was “Why can’t I’ve no children and three cash?” (from The Simpsons). “Deal with yo’ self!” from Parks and Rec was in all probability the most well-liked price range identify of all of them!

Personally, I’m a fan of that the majority quotable film of the previous 20 years, Napoleon Dynamite. However as an alternative of “Do the chickens have giant talons?” you may identify your plan, “Does your price range have giant financial savings?”

16. YNAB rules

I used to be completely stoked to see one YNABer identify their price range after the widespread mantras we educate right here at YNAB. One consumer selected “Discover the Cash First,” they stated, “in a determined try and do exactly that as an alternative of simply spending. Any of the names of the 4 Guidelines can be simply good, too!

17. A pleasant message to the YNAB Assist Staff

For those who didn’t know, our assist crew right here at YNAB is completely superior. For those who give them permission utilizing the Assist Entry characteristic, they’ll even check out your price range to reply any questions particular to your precise scenario. One among our crew members stated they as soon as noticed an encouraging message within the identify of a YNABers price range, and it made their day. They’d like to see extra!

18. Inside jokes

MB within the YNAB Followers group shared a enjoyable story with their price range identify:

“Liz used to tease me about my fast/reckless spending, which I described as eager to “construct a giant leaf pile of {dollars}, then leap in it and ship them flying.” Our price range is known as “Liz & MB’s Leaf Pile”.

A enjoyable inside joke along with your associate or pals could possibly be the right identify to offer you fun daily.

19. Tabletop recreation references

Okay, I needed to embody this one, as a result of I’ve very just lately gotten into D&D. So this price range identify is completely superior. IYKYK:

“I’m within the course of of creating my price range all D&D themed (I’ve a private model to uphold 😅). It’s referred to as “(Cash) Bag of Holding 💰”.

20. Present and film references

I saved my favourite for final. Everybody likes to reference their favourite exhibits. “Finances, Beets, Battlestar Galactica” was a delight for The Workplace followers. Different references included “Gringotts” for the Harry Potter financial institution, “The Actual World” for our old-school MTV followers. And naturally, “The Banana Stand” as a result of, because the characters of Arrested Growth will remind you, there’s all the time cash there. 

So go forth and have an absolute blast naming your price range one thing enjoyable, inspiring, or sensible. However bear in mind, no matter you select, the aim of your price range is that can assist you be sure your spending traces up along with your priorities so you possibly can construct the life you might have all the time needed.

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