A woman's post about an effortlessly balanced travel budget has gone viral on Threads after she described how trust, rather than spreadsheets, helped her and a friend navigate a monthlong vacation through Europe.

In a June 25 post on Threads that has since garnered almost 100,000 views and over 16,000 likes, @theoliviatati shared a reflection from a trip she took at age 21.

"My best friend and I went on a 4-week trip through Europe," she wrote. "We were terrible at tracking our money. No spreadsheets, no splitwise, no Venmo requests. We just took turns paying for things whenever it felt right: meals, trains, hostels, gelato. And we figured we'd sort it all out at the end. When we finally sat down to settle up … One of us owed the other 13 cents. That's it."

The user added: "I'll never

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