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Round Up
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Welcome to Round Up!
- April 1, 2024 -
Hello, and welcome to Round Up! Here in the U.S., it’s a great month if you love mud and tax prep. Luckily, YNAB has a number of features to organize your spending history and get those tax returns shipped! Ben M upends the conventional personal-finance opinion that lattes and little treats are a wasteful indulgence. Plus, we are delighted to share the YNAB update that finally solves the problem of financial illiteracy among pets.
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Quiz question:
Which of the following was not a YNAB April Fool’s release?
- A true-crime podcast, The Whodunit at Wish Farm
- Push notifications delivered (aggressively) in-person
- Spendy, the terrifying new AI assistant in YNAB
- An all-paper edition of the app
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Quick Watch
YNAB for Pets
YNAB is known for releasing outside-the-box features every April, and today we are thrilled to announce our largest market expansion ever: the animal world. Starting today, your pets can have their own safe, secure login, manage their petfluencer income, and improve financial literacy—all while drooling on and scratching your phone.
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Buy That Latte—You’ll Be Happier
Personal finance has been dunking on lattes for decades, insisting that it's "for your own good." But what if they're wrong? Ben M talks about hedonic adaptation and how smaller purchases might make you happier than you’d think.
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Tax Time Prep Made Easy
Tax season has arrived. Have you located your shoebox of receipts? Categorized your spending? If not, then Ashley’s post might just make your day. (Isn’t adulthood fun?)
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Do I Have to Give EVERY Dollar a Job?
The Budget Nerds dig into the reasons why giving every dollar a job is essential to creating a stress-free life around money. Leaving cash unassigned—even if kept in a savings account—doesn’t give us clarity on what it can actually cover (and delays the all-important act of making trade-offs).
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Flag Transactions for Your Partner 💕
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YNAB Together allows partners and loved ones to share a budget and team up on planning and decision-making. Transaction flags are a great way for budget collaborators to communicate within YNAB and avoid having to text each other about mysterious transactions during the day.
You can create a custom flag on web and mobile to let your partner know that a transaction needs to be categorized. They can then change the flag to show it’s been properly categorized. After that, we’d recommend starting a Fortune 500 business together because you both are ON TOP of your stuff!
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Quiz answer: Though we’ve produced a lot of cheeky content on April Fool’s Day, we’ve yet to make our mark in the canon of true-crime podcasts. For your enjoyment, here are some of our favorites: Spendy, the creepy AI assistant; physical push notifications; and Jesse’s beautiful, impractical all-paper version of the YNAB app (audio only).
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