I'll be honest: regular ol' bulk Folgers. Having three coffee drinkers all working from home became too labor-intensive for my French press habit and too expensive for my wallet.

Living vicariously through everyone else's brews, here! I may have to whip up some cardamom cold brew this week. 😄

I've never been able to budget in the literal sense due to how utterly unpredictable my income is (artist sole proprietor kind of thing- don't do it, kids!), and how wildly the structure of my months vary...but getting wise to tracking all incoming and outgoing transactions on my own spreadsheet has brought such peace of mind.

It came naturally after dealing with self employment income records, so it's frankly silly that I never applied the same ideas to my personal finances.

You may enjoy reading about this linguistic offshoot, Missouri French!

For me it's mostly the ease of it. I'm the type to get very bogged down by (perceived) steps, hurdles, and visual overstimulation. An illustration:

Notebook

• Find pen or pencil
• Find the page you need
• Go

Tablet/Etc

• Is it charged
• Specific pen only
• Keyboard needs pairing
• Is keyboard charged
• It wants to update now, awesome
• Turn it on, see ten unrelated apps --> forget what I'm doing
• App randomly decides it needs internet access
• Probably have to deal with syncing now
• etc etc
• (another 'me' problem: I get really hung up on trying to format things digitally, which takes time way from what I'm supposed to be doing)

Now, there are certainly benefits to writing things out digitally, especially when searchability is key. Any important info in any of my booklets that I might need to find later on gets typed up or entered into a spreadsheet where applicable. Not the most efficient way to do things, I suppose. 😅

In general though: I just like being able to look down and see a thing I've written, rather than needing to wake up a device, open a program, or otherwise fiddle with a screen, especially while multitasking.