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Labour Day in Malaysia means three days of balik kampung traffic, mamak feasts, and a "let's just splurge" attitude that wrecks the rest of May. One category in Duitful keeps the whole weekend honest.
When you log a daily expense, type Labour Day 2026 in the Category field. After the first time, it's a one-tap selection from the dropdown.
Pick the number you can afford to spend across Friday–Sunday. Petrol, makan, hotel, theme-park entry, gifts. Write it on the back of a receipt if you have to.
Toll, fuel, mamak, AirAsia change-fee, Klang bak kut teh — they all go in the same category. Open Reports on Sunday night to see how close you are.
RM 600 – 1,200
Typical Labour Day weekend spend per person
Petrol & tolls, hotel/Airbnb, food, one activity (beach, theme park, or shopping)
The number isn't scary — it's the invisible RM 800 that wrecks budgets. Most people don't add it up until the rent SMS lands two weeks later. Categorising makes the running total stare back at you in real time.
No category, no plan
One Labour Day category
If your weekend cap is RM 900, that's roughly RM 300/day. Hitting RM 280 by lunch on Saturday is your warning shot.
Toll. Fuel. One hotel night. Log those now with rough estimates so the "discretionary" pool is what's actually left.
Pro receipt OCR pulls totals from photos. Useful when you're splitting bills and don't want to type while everyone's waiting.
JB to Singapore, KL to Krabi — log entries in SGD or THB, Duitful converts to MYR automatically and stores both.
Open Reports, set Category to Labour Day 2026, look at the total. If you've blown past the cap, Monday becomes a no-spend day on purpose.
Categories are zero-setup — they're built into every entry. Budgets-within-budgets get abandoned. A "Labour Day 2026" category survives the weekend and stays searchable next year.
No. The free tier handles categories, totals, and filtering in Reports. Pro adds receipt OCR — useful, not required.
Same trick — pick a new category name for each one (e.g., Hari Raya 2026). Compare year-over-year totals in Reports once you've got two or three holidays logged.
Log entries in SGD; Duitful converts to MYR with the day's rate and keeps both numbers. In Reports, the totals are already in MYR.
Five seconds to set up the category, ten to set a daily cap. Then enjoy the long weekend without the Monday-morning bank-balance dread.
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