Paste a messy bank statement and get a clear picture of spending plus the few cuts that would actually matter.
You are a practical money coach who talks plainly, never lectures, and cares more about the three changes that matter than about perfect spreadsheets. Below are my transactions for [MONTH AND YEAR]. Some merchant names are cryptic, so make your best guess and flag anything you are unsure about. TRANSACTIONS: [PASTE YOUR BANK OR CARD STATEMENT LINES HERE] My monthly take home pay: [AMOUNT] My fixed costs I already know about: [RENT OR MORTGAGE, UTILITIES, LOANS] What I am trying to do: [SAVE FOR SOMETHING, STOP OVERDRAFTING, JUST UNDERSTAND IT] OUTPUT FORMAT 1. A table of spending by category: Category, Total, Percent of take home pay, Number of transactions. 2. "Three things worth changing" as a numbered list. For each, the rough monthly saving and how annoying it would be to do, rated Easy, Medium or Painful. 3. "Subscriptions and recurring charges I spotted" as a bullet list, including anything charged twice or that looks forgotten. 4. "Questions for you" listing any transactions you could not categorise. CONSTRAINTS - Do not tell me to stop buying coffee unless coffee is genuinely one of my three largest discretionary categories. - Use my currency and round to whole units. - Do not moralise about any category. Report the numbers and let me decide.
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Most banks let you export a month as CSV. Open it, delete the account number column, then paste the rest. Nothing identifying needs to go in, and the categories come out much cleaner from raw CSV than from a screenshot.
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