Date night at home

No restaurants on Fridays and Saturdays, for a month.

A challenge on your own YNAB budget. Whatif checks every day against your transactions after each sync, and before it starts, shows what it would do to the lowest point in your forecast.

Days
4 weeks from the day you start
Counts
The restaurants category you pick

Every part of it can be changed before it starts.

Start

It runs on your own YNAB budget, which connects read-only. Start with a free trial. No card needed.

Day 17 of 28

Invented days, in the shape a real month takes.

4 of 4 days with nothing spent so far — 4 more for 8.

  • held
  • missed
  • excused
  • not synced yet
  • a pass
  • not counted
  • still to come

A day can still change for three days after it ends, as late purchases are read. Then it’s final.

How Whatif counts it

Most of these are the same in every challenge.

  • Checked after each sync

    Every day is checked against your own transactions once Whatif has read them. Nothing to tick and nothing to log: YNAB already has the record. A day not synced yet never counts as one with nothing spent.

  • Only what you pick

    It counts the restaurants category in your own budget, and nothing else.

  • Planned spending is excused

    Spending you had planned for that day, before the day came, never counts against it. Planning ahead is the point of Whatif.

  • Refunds don’t undo a purchase

    Returning a jumper on Saturday doesn’t undo Saturday’s takeaway.

  • Final after three days

    Banks import late, so a purchase that arrives on Thursday can still turn Tuesday into a miss. After three days a day is final, and the result waits for the last one.

  • Nobody sees an amount

    A rule is days, counts or a share of your own figures. The card you can share says those, and never an amount.