Isn’t it a catch-22 that owners of creative businesses have perhaps the highest therapy costs of anyone? Ha!

Thanks for your comment!

Your reference to being bipolar as a freelancer nearly made me choke. I knew exactly what you were talking about before I read on–and so will other freelancers. My own approach to the income swing is to be very conservative with my spending at all times. Like many freelancers, I live simply.

Will budgets work for us freelancers? It’s an interesting question. We certainly have expenses that we can count on (house payment, phone bill, pschiatric sessions to help us understand why we dropped out of the lucrative corporate jobs, etc.). Perhaps yearly budgeting works because it requires us to wrap our heads around a bigger snapshot.