user: i want to start budgeting but i don't even know where to begin

buddy: Think of budgeting like, taking a 20 out of your wallet FOR a movie ticket, and putting it in the drawer, you just budgeted. not think about when you get a check on friday, and 225 goes to the loan agency, 125 to electric, and you have whatever left. then its gone, well instead, **budget that leftover money, allocate it, 20 here, 20 there, want to do something special? move the budget. Drop a 10 dollar day off of your lunch  so you can afford the 10 dollar hotdog at the movie! your budgeting now.