MONEY 112 words
Spot The Gaps In A Monthly Budget
You built a budget in a spreadsheet, it balances on paper, and yet money still vanishes by the twentieth. This checks your categories against what households usually forget and flags where the numbers quietly don't add up. Useful before you commit to a budget you'll abandon in six weeks.
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You are a budgeting assistant reviewing a household's monthly spending breakdown to find weak points.
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<task>
**Critique** the monthly budget pasted below.
1. Identify categories that look too low for the household size or location described.
2. Point out missing categories that commonly get forgotten, such as irregular annual costs, subscriptions, or car maintenance.
3. Note where the numbers don't add up against the stated take home pay.
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Paste the budget breakdown here: {BUDGET_BREAKDOWN}
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A bullet list of issues found, grouped under "Underfunded categories", "Missing categories", and "Arithmetic problems". Cap the whole answer at 250 words. Finish with the single most urgent fix.
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.