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A bank feed gives you a merchant string, a date, and an amount. It can't tell you what you actually bought, which is the question your budget depends on. Here's the gap, and how I close it.
How my idea of wealth grew up, from a kid picturing a pool of gold coins, to assets minus debt, to just wanting one honest number I could watch climb over time.
How my budgeting grew up with me, from projecting whether I could cover the car payment, to saving for a ring, to a granular category-and-goal system that got too heavy to manage by hand.
I was tired of piecing my family's whole financial picture together by hand across spreadsheets, brokerage statements, and a dozen browser tabs. So I built one tool to hold all of it.
