 Hey everyone and welcome to a welcome back to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida. If you're new here, I'm Yoshida and I am a self-employed hairstylist who is basically trying to get my life together and my finances together. So here on the channel, we do mainly a lot of budgeting, sometimes cash stuffing and definitely some planning of my life. Sometimes the planning is functional and sometimes it's minimal, but I do try to keep it minimal. So if it sounds like something that you're interested in, please stay tuned. So today we're going to be doing our monthly budget for February. I know I'm behind. For those of you who are new, I do have a subscription box of budget items that are curated just for your planner each month. So I've been working on that and kind of focusing on that. So I've been lacking over here a little bit, but I have done me a content calendar. So I plan to get back consistent. So real quick, let's go over, excuse me, January. So in the month of January, I guesstimated that I would make $3,500. I guesstimated $600 in Norris Cove. And Etsy wasn't there, but the 100 envelopes, I do sell those in my Etsy. They will soon be moving over to my website because Etsy fees are killing me. It's not making it worth the work. Actually, I'm printing envelopes now as we speak, trying to multi-sass. But my variable expenses was gas, products, and miscellaneous. I did way more than this in products and probably about 120 in gas. Everything was paid. And I actually gave my state farm more. And I was just kept saying it all month, like, where's this money coming from? I don't know. If you're not a believer, I am. I believe in God. And I just kept saying, well, he's done it before you'll do it again. And he did it, y'all. He did it. This is what we made in here, $4,628.35. Norris Cove, I guesstimated six. We did 840, 57 in January. A lot of that is the budget box. But the budget box is kind of dying down. We're losing subscribers, which is, you know, this is typical. And I'm okay with it. I thought of stopping it, but I'm like, no, it's going to get better. I just got to keep going. Something just won't let me stop. And then Etsy, like I said, it was a surprise. So we made $108 in Etsy, and we're already like over 100 in Etsy for the month of February. So like my last month, we're going to do February. I'm going to probably, to make the video short, I'm going to probably list everything out. I'll probably try to do my monthly calendar on here. This was January, monthly calendar. You can find these inserts on my website. And these are just monthlies, dated monthlies. And I was trying to track my income this way, but I kind of lost track along third week. And then let's get into February. Well, I'm going to use kind of January to see what I have going on. Let's make some room. Okay. And also you can find this task card, finance task card on my website as well. It comes a little bigger. I just trimmed it down. So we're in the month of February. Um, my sources, my first one is here. That is just my main job. Norris Cove is my second main job. Also this month, I'm starting back doing nails again. I know I was counting and I have like five streams of income. I'm trying to mump it up to seven. I really think I'm at like kind of four and a half, but any who, we're going to do Etsy because I know I made some sales this month and then nails. For the month of February for here, I just, I got some old clients come back. Let's just make it 4,000. Oh, I forgot a zero. For Norris Cove, like I said, we've lost some subscribers. We have a good amount of three month subscribers. So they're kind of paid up. I don't know if anyone's going to be renewing. Did anyone renew it 90 something? I don't think so. So I'm going to bring Norris Cove to 400 plus we have some new releases Etsy. I'm putting that 100 because like I said, I already know I'm working on some February orders and we're already over $100 nails. I'm leaving that at 40 because so far I just have one person, but I'm going to do a little advertising, trying to clutter so I can get that area together to welcome clients again. So off the break, $226.30. Not bad considering the cost of stuff that I'm paying. So let's do a total on my income. So my income is at $4,540 and I was not including Norris Cove, but I've been paying out of pocket for the products, which I'm well over 400 at this point. So what I've been doing is just kind of saving it and then if I need it for something like the other day when the numbers came in, there were some products I was waiting to get. And I just went ahead and paid for that and then maybe paid myself back if not. So and like I just leave the majority of the money in my account until I need it. So yeah, I don't know. Anyway, we have $4,540 and we're subtracting $3,226.30. That leaves $1,313.70. So anyway, Sinking Funds. I want to do a hundred so far. That's part of the cash envelope. Variable expenses, I'm going to put that at $200. So we're going to subtract $100, subtract $1,113 over my savings. So I was wrong. Wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. So that leaves us with a total of $924. I'm just going to put that over there. I think that's supposed to put that. So Anywho, so that's where we're going to stop our monthly budget. I'm going to just kind of stick that back in. So this is what we have for the month of February. I think we're doing pretty good. We're left with $924. There's always something. I have a surprise bill every month. So there's always something. These totals aren't always right. And again, for those of you who are new here, I'm a self-employed hairstylist. And sometimes this may not be my income. So I like having this slight buffer. I don't know if I told you guys in the last video, but I have opened up a high yield savings account right at the end of the year last year. And I try to just put like $10 a month. I got to do a video on my digital envelope. So I'll probably just fill out my monthly here for February. I think I'm going to probably do that offline because I don't want to hold y'all. And I just wanted to get a video out for you guys, let you know, guys, I'm still budgeting. I did do my weeklies. I've just been doing them off because when I want to do them, I look up this Thursday, okay? But I have a new content calendar. So hopefully I'm going to be able to stick with it. But maybe I'll just speak through this. Let's speak through this. How about that? This is my February finished. I like to just do the basics. As you all can probably see, I just write down what to do first. Then I go back and maybe put stickers where I want to just make sure that I know. I know pretty much when everything's due. And let me point out something. So these corner stickers, these indicate my busy kind of weeks. So this is my busy Saturday. This is my busy Saturday. This is my busy Monday. This is my busy Monday. So these days are important to me being self-employed because if I'm busy on this Saturday, like Chase falls here, I know that I can schedule Chase to come out and it'll come out. I'll have the money for it. And then it lines up. It's almost like a payday. So it's almost like my paydays. And I can see what bills I can pay. Like this falls on a Monday. Luckily, this week, only thing to do is, oh, I forgot Canva. Canva and Chase. Also, I need to put down that I'm getting an oil change. And I'll put a little thing here. And I need to get gas. So I know that what I make from Monday will cover these things. If there's anything that I scheduled last week, like credit one, that is scheduled for today, which is Sunday the 5th. It'll probably not come out until Wednesday. But I'll have the money from here. It'll come out. So I like to use these corners to indicate these. And these came in our sub box. These little bill do stickers, script stickers with the dots. They are in the shop. And then these are, I'm working on these, but I have some of these in the shop, but they're just a smaller form. And I just wanted to kind of use them. But that allows me to see kind of like my quote unquote, paydays or busy weeks where I know I can kind of float something or it will cover something like this week. Coming is going to be the busy Saturday. I have to go ahead and save that money for all of this is coming here. This Monday, this week, even though there's not a lot of bills due, all this money pretty much covers next week. Even though I make money this week, it just, it's not my busy week. So I know I need to hold on to some money from this week to help cover next week in cases slow, quote, unquote, slow. And then I just use this washing strip just to, I was looking for my little new things. I still got some, hold on, I'm gonna switch that out. These were in a sub box and they should be on the website. I have some open, but then I have plenty. I'll just use these. I'm gonna take this out because it really doesn't match. But I was trying to use something to define a line. Oh God. It's okay. So I think I'll use the brown. It goes a little better than I'm just going to kind of overlap and cut it. But let's switch it this way. And that lets me know that subs were going out on this week. So also I can see ahead, like in my business planner, which I'll do a complete flip of over here, I have everything categorized, like what goes out, what I need to order, and whatever. So boxes like in my business planner, I'm supposed to get boxes this week. If I need boxes that way, if there's a delay, I definitely have them this week. And I can start to pack the boxes. So all my calendars kind of flow, but this is my, of course, budget planner. So if I feel like decorating on me, but I very seldom decorate decorating this one, I mainly try to do that in my little everyday carry. But thank you all again so much for watching. Again, if this was your first time here, and you enjoyed today's video, please leave me a favor, hit that subscribe button, also hit that notification bell, and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.