{"id":67988,"date":"2025-04-25T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=67988"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:23:36","slug":"letting-mother-budget-my-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/letting-mother-budget-my-salary","title":{"rendered":"Letting My Mother Budget My Salary For A Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up in an Asian household meant you knew one thing for sure: there always is a budget and you always stick to it. Your great grand-aunt&#8217;s 90th birthday? Fantastic \u2014 but what&#8217;s the budget for her gift? Or maybe you need to shop for a new pair of socks. Of course \u2014 wouldn\u2019t want you running around with holes in your socks, but, the question still stands: what\u2019s the budget?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In an Asian household budgeting isn&#8217;t just a habit or a skill. It\u2019s a legacy that&#8217;s passed down from generation to generation. When\u00a0 times were tough and money was tight, our parents (and their parents before that) had to rely on prudent budgeting to make ends meet. This deep rooted instinct to save, ration and plan came with its own tagline: \u201cDon\u2019t need, we have it at home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that brings us to our latest money experiment. After letting AI (somewhat unsuccessfully) budget my salary in the last round, we decided to try something far more terrifying. Letting my mother budget my salary for a month. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Shudders.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I handed over my salary and expenses and almost immediately regretted it. Not because I didn\u2019t trust her to be able to stretch every last Sen, but because I was absolutely terrified of her finding out exactly how I spent my money. (Editor\u2019s note: another fun culture in an Asian household, is that you\u2019re never too old for a good spanking).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there was no turning back now. She was in full control \u2014 and ready to audit my life, one questionable expense at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s how it went.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: The breakdown<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I did with ChatGPT, I had to give my mom the lo-down. Here\u2019s the recap for those of you that missed it: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI earn RM3,800 per month, which is the median salary in Kuala Lumpur. I need a realistic budget breakdown based on best practices. My fixed expenses are: rent &amp; utilities (RM850), e-hailing rides (RM450). My variable expenses include: groceries, eating out, entertainment &amp; shopping (RM2200)\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In theory, that leaves me with RM300 for savings. But in reality? There is always some miscellaneous expense that comes up making even that small sum, vanish. When I told my mom I wanted her help to better manage my salary so I <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actually<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have savings, she didn\u2019t even blink. She immediately pulled out a pen and a paper (seemingly from thin air) and said with an eerie glint in her eyes \u201cYou\u2019re spending too much money on unnecessary things, I can fix that.\u201d<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Shudders.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Step 2: Mother knows best<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike ChatGPT that gave me a detailed breakdown on where to cut spending, my mothers approach was\u2026different to say the least. She didn\u2019t rely on any formulas such as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/budget-50-30-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer dofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50\/30\/20 method<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or any financial theories. Instead, she relied on her instincts that came from years of stretching money to cover everything from mortgages, utility bills, school fees, groceries and still have enough left over to sponsor our annual family trips.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is her revised plan:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rent &amp; utilities: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RM850. Unchanged because I still need a roof above my head and she is happy to have me out of the house. Win-win?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Transport:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> RM50. A\u00a0 RM400 slash from my original budget. Her exact words were: Why so expensive? You think we print money? Get the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.myrapid.com.my\/product\/my50-unlimited-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer dofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MY50 unlimited travel plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now this is where it started getting real. Real scary that is. I had casually lumped RM2,200 under \u201cvariable expenses,\u201d thinking it was a fair ballpark for groceries, eating out, entertainment, and the occasional splurge. My mother, however, looked at that figure like it personally insulted her ancestors. She grabbed her pen (still no idea where it came from) and went straight into fight mode.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Groceries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> RM 400. She went on for nearly an hour about how cheap it is to meal-prep and make my lunches at home but the summary of it was to buy no more than two types of protein and three types of vegetables per week to ensure nothing was being wasted. In this hour-long rant she mentioned the word tofu a million times. Apparently it&#8217;s cheap, healthy, filling and practically the cure to cancer (do NOT quote me on that). Time to look up \u201c100 ways to cook with tofu\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Eating out: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RM200. She was sure to point out how these were only for real emergencies \u2014 like rushing to work and missing breakfast, which according to her should never happen because breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So yay, I guess I can still get the occasional coffee and sandwich from the kopitiam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Entertainment and shopping:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> RM 0. Once again, her exact words were: \u201cWhat entertainment? YouTube is free, watch that.\u201d As for shopping she took one look at my closet and claimed I was fully stocked for the next five years already. Basically, if it wasn\u2019t a necessity, it wasn\u2019t making the cut. Fun? Never heard of her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Investments:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> RM300. Just when I thought we were done, she hit me with a new category altogether. Something I vaguely heard about when I first started working , but ultimately shoved to the back of my head. Money needs to be<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/investing-monthly-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer dofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> invested monthly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she said. No matter how big or small a sum. There was no negotiating this. Interestingly, this was something ChatGPT didn\u2019t account for in its breakdown. While AI focused on cutting expenses and managing what I already had, my mom went a step further \u2014 ensuring I was also planting seeds to grow it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The final verdict: ChatGPT vs MumGPT<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of it all, I had two very different budgets in my hands\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 one calculated by a high-tech AI model, trained on endless data sets, and the other scribbled in half an hour by a woman powered solely by gut instinct, life experience, and a burning need to prove that I spend too much money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s the TL;DR:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>ChatGPT\u2019s budget<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> felt like a practical guide: structured, balanced, and rooted in financial logic. It gave me space for leisure, small indulgences, and even some breathing room. But it made the mistake of assuming I had discipline. (I don\u2019t.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>My mothers budget<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Ruthless. Efficient. Slightly traumatic. But also \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lowkey brilliant<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She cut the fat, boosted my savings, threw in a compulsory investment plan, and somehow still allowed for the occasional kopi and sandwich.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So who wins? Honestly\u2026 MumGPT might have the upper hand here. Not because she\u2019s smarter than AI (though don\u2019t ever tell her that), but because she knows me \u2014 my habits, my weaknesses, my closet full of impulse buys\u00a0 \u2014 and she used that knowledge to build a budget that doesn\u2019t just work on paper, but actually holds me accountable. But what truly takes the cake is the fact that with my mothers budget I actually have a fixed amount of money to set aside for investments. Unlike ChatGPT that lives in the cloud somewhere, my mother lives ten minutes away and will do an occasional spot check to make sure I stick to the plan and cook at home. This isn\u2019t just a budget. It\u2019s a surveillance system with built-in guilt trips and surprise audits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yes \u2014 as terrifying as it is to say this: MumGPT wins this round. And now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I need to go YouTube how to make five different meals with tofu. Again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother knows best, right? 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