Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 31, 2014

On October 1, I embarked on a month long series, 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. It was my goal to help you have a detailed financial plan for your family by the end of the month. And I think I achieved my goal, but I’ll be honest, towards the end of the month I was ready to talk/write/read about other topics.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 16, 2017

October is a big month for me. I met my husband in October. We married in October. Family Balance Sheet , the website, turns 9 in October 2017, but Family Balance Sheet, the spreadsheet, turns 14. We are working towards some pretty big financial goals and we’ve hit quite a few already.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In the month of October, my challenge will be to find $1000. Mondays thru Saturdays in October, I will have ideas to help you find $1000 too. If there is one line item in everyone’s budget that can get out of control it is groceries. It takes planning! So read through the below tips and attack that grocery bill!

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

Making a budget and cutting expenses. If you look at our budget today vs 5 years ago when we started the journey: we have more than doubled our income, and expenses have slightly increased with the babies and some small luxuries. Working together, sharing the same goals and vision, talking about milestones. Its exponential.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 10, 2014

By the end of the month, my goal is to help you have a detailed financial plan for your family. We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. Budget Financial Freedom Financial Organization'

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 27, 2013

In the month of October, my challenge will be to find $1000. Mondays thru Saturdays in October, I will have ideas to help you find $1000 too. I’m only half way towards my goal. My next and final recap will be on October 31. I was out of town last weekend for a half marathon. oh well… Our Found Cash: $492.

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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 6, 2022

We’ve seen higher grocery and fuel bills lately, so we’re upping our frugal game to help the budget. Our financial goals are still important to us and we want to hit them regardless of the rising prices. How I frugal-ed in the kitchen: I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. Here are five ways that I saved money this month.

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 6, 2020

For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. With this big goal checked off our list, we changed and updated our Debt Freedom Plan by adjusting some steps and started to work through our goals of increasing our emergency fund, contributing to our retirement, and saving for our daughters’ college education.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 12, 2018

so that we have more money to put towards our financial goals. What We Ate this Week: I make an effort each week to serve my family delicious food but still stick to the budget. This month at Family Budgeters Unite! , Frugal Miscellany: We’ve had a lot of very warm and humid days in September and October.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In the month of October, my challenge will be to find $1000. Mondays thru Saturdays in October, I will have ideas to help you find $1000 too. We can slash our budgets to bare bones, but the quickest way to reach our savings goal is to increase our income. What can you do to increase your income?

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For the Mommas

OCTOBER 15, 2014

If a Fitbit is not in your budget, check out the Spark Activity Tracker on Amazon for only $29.95. The Spark wirelessly syncs to your computer so you can view your results, set goals, earn trophies, and participate in challenges. View progress on our iPhone and Android apps (coming in October). No worries.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 15, 2021

My oldest was in eighth grade and one of my goals for 2020 was to start saving consistently for both daughters’ college education. My Upromise strategy will help with our goal. earned in the below picture was transferred in early October. My goal is to always get cashback on every online purchase. Hello, 2020.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Something happens mentally when you WRITE down your goals and plans for execution. We originally (and naively) estimated that we would be done by end of 2016, however, 2016 was not been kind to us, and we moved this goal into 2017. Yes, I’d like to visit Nashville, but going down to scream at DR isn’t really a goal anymore.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 27, 2011

This can be difficult but is sometimes necessary if the cost per guest is going to break your budget. Choosing a date between October and April also helps to avoid higher peak season rates in many areas. Our wedding was in October on a Sunday and this worked out very well. Have a small guest lis t.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff: The Dollar Challenge – 20?s Faithful With A Few: Why Do We Often Fail To Push Ourselves To Meet Goals? It’s not even that we are afraid to work hard to meet our goals. Smart Family Finance: Is Your Budget Easy to Beat? You are Probably Budgeting Wrong! Yakezie Blog Swap #10.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

You’ll also find some extra fun printables for Valentines Day, the pantry, and your budgeting. The popular organizing blog, A Bowl Full of Lemons has introduced a fabulous “Financial Mini Kit” to help get your budget in order. Finances: Bill Payment Schedule, Budget Printable, Insurance Policy Information.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

" All things on earth point home in old October. " --Thomas Wolfe ~~~ As you probably already have guessed, I am a list ~ maker and leave very little to memory. The mere act of writing it out has already primed my thoughts and attitude toward my goals for the month and.as What are your goals for this month? the old saying goes."the

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The goal for this monthly accountability meeting is to give updates on our progress, motivate one another, and help all of us save for a cash Christmas. Towards the end of September, I made a commitment to myself to write a series in October called, 31 Days to Find $1000. Take a look at your Christmas budget.

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Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 8, 2014

By the end of the month, my goal is to help you have a detailed financial plan for your family. We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. This exercise is NOT your budget. There are several ways to track spending.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Unfortunately, we did not hit that goal and in part, have made some major changes to our Debt Freedom Plan. At that time, I couldn’t cash flow the office budget, home budget, our loans, and retirement savings. We will apply half of our debt snowball amount to the home equity loan and it should be paid off by October 2017.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

MoneySmartGuides : The Real Cost of Eating Out – I was looking over my budget for the previous month and something stood out. Newlyweds on a Budget : Paying down student loans – The following is a guest post. Just how much money did that save me? At first, I thought I made a typo along the way. That is s serious gain, IMHO!

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