BLACKWOOD Bill Planner

This planner exists because BLACKWOOD can end a run with a ledger. The studio’s systems post says a month is four weeks of seven days, bills plus hush money total about 11–13k, you may pay gradually, one miss starts police or loan-shark pressure, and a second miss is a game over. It also says an unmanaged DVD shop earns about $60–$80 a day and a well-run shop can earn $500 or more. Those figures are enough to plan. They are not enough to fake item prices. For the actions behind the high number, read store management. For wallet rules, read dual economy.

The month as 28 days

Use 28 days (7 × 4). If the shipping build uses a different length, we will change the table. Until then:

Shop style	Daily Clean Cash	28-day shop total	Versus 12k bill
Autopilot, messy inventory	$70 (midpoint of 60–80)	~$1,960	Short by ~$10k
Mixed (14 lazy, 14 strong)	$70 / $500	~$7,980	Still short
Strong shop most days	$500	~$14,000	Bill covered from shop alone
Strong shop, some days off for long missions	$500 × 20 days	~$10,000	Needs special-mission Clean Cash or a lower bill month

The lesson is ugly and useful. Autopilot cannot pay the month. You do not need 28 perfect days if your daily number is truly $500, but you cannot treat the shop as skippable flavour and hope contracts will cover rent. Dirty Cash does not pay rent in the published split.

Pay as you go

You may pay the 11–13k all at once or in slices. A simple Act 1 habit:

• After every strong shop day, park $400–$500 toward the bill before you buy outfits.
• After a contract night, do not convert Dirty Cash into a second unfinished rifle until the Clean Cash buffer is at least half the month.
• If a warning sequence already started, stop cosmetic spending. The second miss is the end of Anton Blackwood for that save.

Relationship spending with Amelie is Clean Cash. It is allowed. It is also how a buffer dies if you treat it like a free cutscene.

Contracts still matter — for the other wallet

Dirty Cash buys rare guns, ammo, illegal mods, and unique takedown items. A night that prints a lot of Dirty Cash is a good night for weapon customization and a neutral night for rent. Logically:

• Use contracts to feed one modular platform, not five.
• Use shop days to feed the bill.
• Use special missions that the studio listed as Clean Cash sources when the shop week went badly.

Side missions return with modifiers. A weapon-restriction night might cost ammo you paid Dirty Cash for. That is a combat budget, not a rent budget. Keep the columns separate on paper if the in-game UI ever tempts you to see “money” as one pile.

A sample week (not a speedrun)

Day 1: restock, price, work the till, short hangout, sleep.
Day 2: morning shop pass, main mission, close, pay a bill slice.
Day 3: shop-focused, Amelie on counter while you sort inventory.
Day 4: side contract, then checkout when you return.
Day 5: shop + civilian gun practice in controls if you are still clumsy.
Day 6: harder contract, no shopping spree.
Day 7: restock heavy, pay another slice, sleep.

That week is a teaching pattern for Getting Started, not a spoiler route. If Act 1’s tutorial locks you out of the shop for a night, resume the pattern the first morning you have control.

What this planner refuses to do

• Invent DVD SKU prices
• Invent black-market gun costs
• Claim Dirty Cash converts at a hidden rate
• Guarantee $500 every time you touch a shelf — the studio said “can,” not “will”
• Replace combat with a spreadsheet

After launch we will add an “observed prices” section. It will be dated. If a patch changes the 11–13k band, the top of this page will say so in the first paragraph, not in a footnote.

If you only remember one line

Two missed months and the thriller is over. Stylish takedowns will not reopen the save. Put Clean Cash on the bill first, then buy the night kit. That is the whole tool.