One of the things that I noticed catching up with our budgeting is that our budget is totally out of whack now that we don’t pay rent, don’t pay for phone and internet, don’t pay for energy, and don’t have to pay that much for my commuting. Just take a look at how our new [...]
Tracking your expenses is an important part of setting up a budget that is effective at predicting future expenditures and educating you on your current progress. There are a few different styles that people employ to do this, but I don’t want to get into that discussion now. What I want to do [...]
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I have a budgeting confession to make, I haven’t touched my family’s budget in over a month. *Gasp*
I know, I know - I am setting the foundation for a cavalcade of kaka if I let things continue down this path, but I have a really good excuse why. It looks just like this:
I have [...]
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One of the tricks I use in my monthly budget spreadsheets is the SUMIF function. This is a powerful tool that helps me to easily summarize the financial information I record in the transaction section of my budget spreadsheet into clear categories for me to analyze and assess. I am able to track the [...]
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