If your income exceeds your expenses, what should you decide?

How to use the excess money for a goal or savings.

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  1. How to use the excess money for a goal or savings ✔
  2. How to spend it all immediately
  3. How to hide it from your budget

Why: Extra income should be directed somewhere useful, like a new goal or savings.

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Answer: How to use the excess money for a goal or savings. Extra income should be directed somewhere useful, like a new goal or savings.

  1. Scouting America: Personal Management www.scouting.org/merit-badges/personal-management
    state how you would use the excess money (new goal, savings)
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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