

For a company with 100 staff working 8 hours a day, management are responsible for putting those 192,000 hours a year to good work, only just under my life’s contribution thus far, since birth.


“When you think about the time that you have to take to create the budget, go to a bank to pull out the money … then come back home, divide the money, put the money into envelopes.Aged 24, I am 211,851 hours old. “There’s no doubt that cash stuffing is more time-consuming than paying with a debit or credit card, which can be a frictionless experience,” she told CNBC. Tania Brown, a certified financial planner and financial coach at SaverLife, told CNBC that cash stuffing requires commitment. Hill added that typically it is a short-term answer for a long-term goal such as getting out of debt or building a deposit for a house, but it’s also much more than that from a financial well-being point of view. It’s spending what you have and not what you haven’t.” “It’s taking back control and rebelling somewhat against consumerism. “It’s actually a traditional way of planning finances which has been picked up again by smart influencers and young adults alike who are fed up at the ease of which banks, digital payments providers and credit card companies can get you in financial trouble and distress,” Hill said.

The way it works is rather simple, just like when people used to stuff cash under their mattress, this time around, people use binders or envelopes to set aside cash for their different financial necessities, including rent or mortgage, gas, groceries and vacation.ĭaniel Hill, Founder of Lawton Hathaway Ltd.-Credit Management Solutions, told GOBankingRates that cash stuffing is a welcome and healthy change of attitude toward personal debt. As of Monday May 2, videos with the #cashstuffing hashtag had 446 million views, and that’s not counting the dozens of different iterations, including #cashenvelopstuffing and #stuffingcashenvelops. Videos on Tik Tok with the hashtag are garnering millions of views, and there are even challenges for the money-budgeting method. See: 6 Bad Habits That Hike Up Your Grocery Billįind: 9 Bills You Should Never Put on Autopay It’s sometimes useful to get back to the basics, and the #cashstuffing trend on Tik Tok and other social media is just that: stuffing cash in envelopes or in binders to better budget. And with inflation at a 41-year high, as well as food and gas prices continuing to soar, forcing oneself to a strict budget and sticking to cash might be a good idea.
