{"id":4407,"date":"2018-06-29T23:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2018-07-04T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:49:14","slug":"create-slots-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/create-slots-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Slots Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/create-a-slots-budget-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/create-a-slots-budget-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/create-a-slots-budget-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/create-a-slots-budget-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/create-a-slots-budget.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The worst thing that you can do as a slots player is bet money you can&#8217;t afford to lose. But how do you create a slots budget and avoid this problem?<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading as I cover tips for how to make a budget that&#8217;ll help you avoid losing too much with slot machines.<\/p>\n<h2>Figure Out how Much Money You Earn<\/h2>\n<p>The best place to begin is finding out how much money you earn either every week or month. I prefer working off monthly figures for slots budgets, but this is a personal preference.<\/p>\n<p>Calculating your monthly income can be as simple as adding up a few pay stubs. Most workers receive a weekly paycheck that&#8217;s worth a consistent amount (e.g. $800).<\/p>\n<p>However, anybody who&#8217;s self-employed or works off commissions may require more time to figure out this info.<\/p>\n<h2>Calculate Your Expenses<\/h2>\n<p>The next step is to figure out how much you spend on bills and other expenses. Again, this can either be done on a weekly or monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Add up how much you spend on rent\/house payment, utilities, groceries, entertainment, and anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Groceries and entertainment may vary on a weekly or monthly basis. But you should be able to come up with a reasonable average.<\/p>\n<h2>Add Everything up and Create a Slots Budget<\/h2>\n<p>The last step in the quest to create a slots budget is to subtract expenses from income.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say that you make $3,500 after taxes, for example. Now let&#8217;s assume you pay $2,500 worth of expenses.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves you with $1,000 to play slots with. Of course, you don&#8217;t want to risk all $1k on slot machines.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better to save some of your free cash for emergencies and retirement. In the case of our example, you could use $500 on slots and save the remaining $500 for other purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing that you can do as a slots player is bet money you can&#8217;t afford to lose. But how do you create a slots budget and avoid this problem? Keep reading as I cover tips for how to make a budget that&#8217;ll help you avoid losing too much with slot machines. Figure Out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}