Alan · Money

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Type what came in. I’ll cover your must-pays first, protect your looks & fun, then send the rest where it grows.

EGP

This month

Must-pays + floors covered
Your money

Where it’s all sitting.

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Gold & the car

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🚗 Car — funded by gold

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The strategy

Why the split is the split.

Built from how top advisors & the wealthy actually allocate — then bent around your life: irregular income, gold as the goal, and a protected reward so you don’t burn out.

1 · Pay yourself a salary first

Your income is lumpy, so we never split a % of every payment. Each one fills your baseline — must-pays + a protected Looks & Fun floor — and only the surplus gets invested. That’s the pay-yourself-first method built for variable income.

2 · Get safe (Phase 1)

Kill the 7,000 credit card first (highest interest you hold — beats any investment return), then build a safety buffer to ~20,000 so a slow month can’t sink you. Surplus tilts to safety + gold here.

3 · Build wealth (Phase 2)

Once you’re safe, surplus splits:

🪙 Gold — your store of value & car fund40%
🎬 Business / content — grows your income25%
😎 Lifestyle — looks & fun above the floor15%
🛟 Safety buffer top-up10%
🚀 High-risk “get big” fund10%

Why gold-heavy?

In Egypt, gold rose ~55% in 2025 while EGP cash lost purchasing power — it’s the best store of value you can hold, it’s your dad’s exact method, and the pile becomes the car. Dalio keeps 5–15% in gold as a stabilizer; you run higher because it’s your explicit goal and inflation hedge.

The unlock

Your iPhone installment ends soon — that frees 6,500/mo straight into surplus. The app counts it down and adjusts automatically.

Sources: Ramit Sethi Conscious Spending Plan · Barefoot Investor buckets · Profit First · Ray Dalio All-Weather (5–15% gold) · debt-avalanche · Egypt gold vs EGP 2025.

Setup

Your numbers.

Change anything and the whole split re-does itself. Saved on this device.

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Money coming in

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Fixed must-pays

Covered first, every month. “Months left” for installments that end (e.g. iPhone).
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Protected floors

Never starved, even in a slow month — your motivation ROI.
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Goals & debt

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Today

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