05-27-2026, 03:57 PM
Keep them separate. You already answered your own question and your instinct is right.
The second you treat a redemption as house money you stop counting it as your money, and that is exactly when budgets quietly stop existing. Cash out, send it to your regular bank account, let it leave the ecosystem.
25 a week with a hard no-topup rule is genuinely sensible. The topup is what gets people. Not the initial budget, the I will just add ten more.
Write the weekly number somewhere you see it. Sounds silly, works.
The second you treat a redemption as house money you stop counting it as your money, and that is exactly when budgets quietly stop existing. Cash out, send it to your regular bank account, let it leave the ecosystem.
25 a week with a hard no-topup rule is genuinely sensible. The topup is what gets people. Not the initial budget, the I will just add ten more.
Write the weekly number somewhere you see it. Sounds silly, works.