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The 48-hour system that stops freelance payments from creating broke months

A practical routing system for freelancers whose income arrives in bursts — built to help a good payment protect the months that come after it.

If you’re a freelancer bringing in $2,000–$10,000 a month, you know this cycle: a great payment lands, you finally breathe, spend a little — then the slow month hits and you’re broke again. For irregular earners, timing can be just as important as discipline.

The Feast Month Trap gives you a mechanical system that routes every payment the moment it lands, before impulse gets a vote. Inside: the Pre-Spend Rule, a Buffer Calculator sized to your real numbers, a Reset Protocol for when you blow a feast month anyway, plus a Setup Checklist and Payment Calendar to run the whole thing in about 30 minutes.

Grounded in published behavioral economics research, including Richard Thaler’s work on mental accounting. Thaler received the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics.

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Try the method

Test the system with your own numbers

This isn’t a generic budget calculator — it’s the book’s Buffer Target Method and Payment Router, made interactive so you can see how the mechanics work before you buy.

Before you start

Use the money you actually get to keep personally. If part of a client payment still has to pay business costs — like software, helpers, fuel, or equipment — subtract those business costs first.

Tool 01

Buffer Target Calculator

Interactive

Your Buffer is money you set aside for slow months. Enter your numbers and this tool will estimate how much you may need.

Example numbers: Replace every number below with your own before you calculate.

Use three genuinely slow months — not your best months. Enter the money you personally kept after business costs.

Think rent or mortgage, food, utilities, minimum debt payments, and other basic personal bills.

Tool 02

Payment Router

Interactive

This tool shows where one client payment goes: money available now, money saved for slow months, and money set aside for taxes.

Example numbers: The $4,000 payment and 55% / 20% / 25% split are examples. Replace them with your own numbers. Your tax percentage depends on your situation.

Choose where 100% of this payment should go.Total: 100%

If you use decimals, stop at 2 numbers after the decimal — for example, 33.33%. All three percentages must add up to exactly 100%.

Educational tool only. The examples and calculations are not personalized financial, tax, legal, or accounting advice. Tax needs and other obligations vary by person and location.

What you get

What’s inside

A compact system designed to be used, not filed away — with the core ideas, working tools, and setup pieces all in one place.

01

6 chapters

Why average-it-out budgeting fails, the Feast Trigger, the Pre-Spend Rule, the Dry-Month Buffer, the Reset Protocol, and automation without willpower.

02

2 worksheets

A Payment Router and Buffer Calculator, each with a filled-in example so you can see exactly how they work before running your own numbers.

03

Setup checklist

The exact steps to get your routing system running in about 30 minutes, start to finish.

04

Payment calendar

A simple way to classify every month as Feast, Normal, or Famine, so you always know where you stand.

Build the routing habit once, then let the system do more of the work.

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