Below is the current iteration of our budget.  Our gross income in 2013 was nearing $60k, but we only budget off our income from our grad school stipends and leave out interest income, investment gains, and side hustle income.
 
These are the spending categories for our everyday budget.
 

 
 
This adds up to about $40 less than our net monthly income from our stipends – we like to keep a little wiggle room each month for unexpected expenses.  Below is a breakdown of the money we transfer to our targeted savings accounts monthly – this is money that we plan to spend in approximately the next year, but which generally is spent in chunks too big for our monthly budget to handle.
 

 
 
In addition to these savings accounts, we also have an emergency fund and a general savings account (our “nest egg”) from which we pull expenses that we can’t cover with one of our …