{"id":395,"date":"2023-10-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/setting-up-my-perfect-financial-system-money-mapping\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:22:14","slug":"setting-up-my-perfect-financial-system-money-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/setting-up-my-perfect-financial-system-money-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Way to Understand Your Finances: Money Mapping [2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I love financial visualizations. I feel like my brain doesn\u2019t intuitively make sense of numbers\u2014but when I see everything represented visually, it resonates. (Jump cut to me sitting on a bench outside my college calculus class on the phone with my dad, in tears.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A few years ago, I did an exercise I lovingly called a \u201cMoney Map.\u201d It looked like this:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ScreenShot2021-03-07at25540PM.webp\" alt=\"  My sincerest apologies for the inconsistent use of dashed and solid lines. I was excited.  \"\/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My sincerest apologies for the inconsistent use of dashed and solid lines. I was excited.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The impetus was the realization that my financial life was becoming increasingly complex. I was having a hard time wrapping my head around the wheels that were turning in the background, and I wanted to illustrate how money was flowing through the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At the time, I had four (sometimes unpredictable) sources of income, a maximum 401(k) contribution, and a lack of a true \u201cemergency fund\u201d savings account, thanks to a taxable brokerage account product from Betterment called a \u201cSafety Net\u201d that I used instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">To help make my holistic financial picture a bit clearer, I envisioned a visual exercise to put it all to paper. Out came the colored highlighters, and on came the lightbulb above my head.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I give you: The \u201cmoney mapping\u201d exercise. If your financial situation is complicated to the point that it becomes hard to keep up with (like how mine was), it\u2019s worthwhile to take the time to streamline the way your money flows through your financial system. Here\u2019s how to make your own, where the name of the game here is <strong>simplification<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">My 2025 Update<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I didn\u2019t re-draw my old system, but things <em>have<\/em> gotten progressively simpler despite adding another whole human to the mix in 2021 (hi, Thomas). We now have:<\/p>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Two sources of income (<strong>100%<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u2026that first pay taxes (subtracts <strong>23%<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u2026and funds my 401(k) and HSA, and Thomas\u2019s TSP (the 401(k)-style account that military members have) (subtracts another <strong>10%<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u2026then the rest flows into our joint checking account (the remaining <strong>67%<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u2026which pays our rent and our four primary credit cards each month (my business card, my AmEx Platinum, my AmEx Gold, and Thomas\u2019s Chase Sapphire Preferred) (call it somewhere in the <strong>22%<\/strong> of total ballpark)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u2026and then funds our joint taxable brokerage account with what\u2019s left (around <strong>45%<\/strong> of total ballpark)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">See? It\u2019s way more fun with highlighters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5e94adbc25a0ae61d843b475\/9c7807d3-ba39-4114-bb64-7dca66ebd187\/Income?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Start with income:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sometimes we introduce more complexity slowly over time as our financial lives morph and grow around our habits. You know how it is: You start paying rent out of one specific checking account because it just so happens to be the one set up for withdrawals. Then, you open a new checking or savings account elsewhere, but still need to funnel money back to the old one to pay the rent, and, and, AND\u2026it slowly becomes an unwieldy mess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Of course, some people <em>like<\/em> to maintain a bunch of accounts for different things, but I\u2019ve found personally that that becomes an unnecessary energy drain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">So, you\u2019ll start by drawing the cash flowing from your income stream(s) into your central checking account (or accounts, if you maintain joint finances with someone in a \u201cyours, mine, and ours\u201d fashion).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The 401(k) contribution (or 403(b), or HSA, or\u2026you get the picture) has to come directly from the paycheck, too, and that\u2019s great\u2014so make sure you\u2019re demonstrating that on your money map somewhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SafetyNet.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Illustrate your emergency fund:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you\u2019re still growing your emergency fund, draw a dotted line from checking to savings to represent your monthly flow of cash. If your emergency savings are already funded, set it off to the side to visualize its \u201creserve\u201d status\u2014like an account waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s there if you need it, but you aren\u2019t actively funneling money into it. If you have a habit of \u201cover\u201d-saving (and therefore \u201cunder\u201d-investing), this mental separation can help you see where it might be more helpful to reroute extra funds to a more growth-y destination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You may also have other savings or investing goals that you\u2019re actively funding\u2014like for a house down payment or future childcare\u2014so you can draw those little metaphoric buckets as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Spending.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Add in spending:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Most of my spending\u2014necessary and discretionary\u2014happens on credit cards, which I pay for out of the checking account. There are a ton of reasons to use credit instead of debit cards: security against fraud risk, cash back, points\u2026the list goes on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But sometimes you <em>have<\/em> to pay something with a direct withdrawal (like my rent). I like to note that in my map where it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You can think about the credit card as the first line of defense, or barrier, between your spending habits and your checking account. While you shouldn\u2019t find yourself in a position where you need to be actively transferring money into checking from savings to pay your credit cards, I like to know when there\u2019s a big-ticket item that\u2019s going to be taken <em>directly<\/em> out of checking instead of funneled through a credit card with a \u201cdelayed\u201d due date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Investing.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Draw post-tax investment accounts as offshoots from the checking account:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When you open a post-tax investing account like a Roth IRA or a regular taxable account, you have to deposit money directly into those accounts from checking or savings. Remembering to do this on an ongoing basis as you earn every month can be tedious, so I like to set up bimonthly auto-transfers that happen in the days following when I get paid (though in recent years as my income has become increasingly variable, I tend to manually check at the end of every month and make manual transfers, too).<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What about taxes?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">There\u2019s a big missing piece of the visual puzzle above. Can you spot it? Taxes. Taxes will also be paid directly from your paychecks, so if you want to note it, you can (I did in my update above, just to twist the IRS knife). I recently sat down with a spreadsheet and listed our income, spending, and total tax burden, and was shocked at the pie chart that got spit out: We\u2019ve paid more in taxes this year than we\u2019ve spent on <em>everything else combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That made me realize it <em>probably<\/em> makes sense to hire an accountant to double-check our tax strategy, vs. stressing about an incremental few hundred bucks spent here or there. (It also reminded me that now\u2019s the time to invest in the business via #WRITEOFFS if anything comes to mind.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Creating a sense of scale<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You\u2019ll also probably notice the percentages on the flow chart above. If I were really on my visual representation high horse, I would\u2019ve drawn the boxes to scale (and actually, I low-key love that idea), but for the sake of my less-than-artistic first rendering, I just noted the percentages where applicable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But drawing the boxes to scale can be helpful because it\u2019ll help you see if you\u2019re prioritizing investing (and doing so in an <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.moneywithkatie.com\/growing-your-wealth-with-a-personal-financial-system\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">ideal way<\/span><\/a>), or if there are a lot of leaky holes in your budget. For example, if only tiny offshoots are being sent to investment accounts or savings and the vast majority of your income is going right out the door in that spending bucket, it can help make your purchasing decisions a little more tangible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It might also help you see where you\u2019re prioritizing certain financial goals a lot more heavily than others\u2014perhaps in a way you hadn\u2019t realized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Why money mapping is a useful exercise<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Besides the fact that you can whip out the highlighters and touch real paper for the first time in months, money mapping helps you diagnose large trends in your financial life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It can also help reveal gaps in your own understanding. If you start filling in numbers and realize that you don\u2019t actually know where part of your income is going every month, it can help visually guide you toward possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">For example, when I saw that 57% of my investing was going into a <em>taxable<\/em> investing account, it made me wonder if there were other tax-advantaged options I could\u2014*ahem*\u2014take advantage of first besides my 401(k) and Roth IRA. (Spoiler alert: I ended up contributing more to <a href=\"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/blog\/the-hsa-and-high-deductible-plan-are-cheaper-for-these-tax-brackets\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">my HSA<\/span><\/a> and opening a <a href=\"https:\/\/moneywithkatie.com\/blog\/the-simplest-optimal-accounts-for-earners-with-w-2-and-self-employment-income\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Solo 401(k)<\/span><\/a> for my self-employment income.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Happy mapping, nerds!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love financial visualizations. I feel like my brain doesn\u2019t intuitively make sense of numbers\u2014but when I see everything represented visually, it resonates. (Jump cut to me sitting on a bench outside my college calculus class on the phone with my dad, in tears.) 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