Half-price eating out

50% less on eating out for 4 weeks.

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 eating-out categories 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.

43% of your usual so far — under 50% holds it.

  • 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.

  • Against your usual

    Your usual is the median of your last eight whole weeks on what it counts, so one odd week can’t move it. A budget with less history than that is told so, rather than given a guess.

  • 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.