I could have sworn I heard him once say he budgeted, I think in response to someone in chat who told him he should after some fake emergency. More likely than not he's said both.
I feel like he has as well during some snippy segment in a fundraiser stream, but we may both be thinking of his vague promises in July 2020 that he would
eventually be able to start budgeting
really soon (tm).
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Prior to this he described budgeting in any more than a broad sense and saving to be concepts that any adult understands are not possible or reasonable.
If he has mentioned it since then, and implied he is budgeting now, then he is saying it just because he declared bankruptcy and knows that if he isn't budgeting now, it would expose him as being as financially irresponsible as he actually is.
It ultimately doesn't matter too much, because if a budget did exist, he would just use it to min/max bills versus spending on booze and gacha. He would not disclose any of it to his audience. He won't even give an exact value for something like his mortgage payment, even though that leaked in the bankruptcy docs, just in the off chance some whale was going to give him more than what he needed during his fundraiser.
If he had half a brain, he'd just bookmark
@Piece of Peace 's financial doc and use that. It's probably better and more accurate than anything he or his accountant put together in the last 5 years.
At least partly because Piece is trying to find the truth rather than obscure it on legally binding documents...