Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 29, 2020

That is why I created Family Budget Spreadsheets — a bundle of spreadsheets that we personally use to plan and budget our money. This package is designed to help you organize your finances, create a budget, plan for major purchases, understand your cash flow, and track your net worth.

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Budgeting Budget Family Property Taxes 130

Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been working behind the scenes on a tool that I personally use to track and organize our finances: Family Budget Spreadsheets. This package of 9 Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is designed to help you organize your finances, plan for major purchases, create a budget, understand your cash flow, and track your net worth.

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Budgeting Budget Family Property Taxes 160

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 11, 2020

How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. This is not an elective, fun, no-spend month like what we did in January to find funds for our summer vacation. Share in the comments!

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Budgeting Budget Family Debt 246

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 8, 2018

During that time, I started to budget for everything. Every aspect of our lives was included in our budget. When people hear the word budget, they think “restriction” and “no fun”, but honestly that couldn’t be further from the truth. Another way to think of a budget is a spending plan.

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Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Goals 133

The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

I track expenses, monitor our budget and handle all of our investments. Alan and I, by choice, bought land in an area with low property taxes. Had we not fallen in love with the locale, it wouldn’t have mattered how low the taxes were, but fall in love we did. Do you have any tips for frugal travel or vacations?

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Green And Frugal Kids and Family Hotel Frugal 179

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 6, 2014

We will probably be renting a car for our vacation this year. The sales tax, plus the ongoing higher property tax and insurance are really turning him off – and the van does fine if we drive it locally or just for a few hours to the lake. Budget, for example, has the following options that can be added: GPS ($5.49

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Rental Car Cars Car Rent 167

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 6, 2020

For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. Also to top it off, I had a huge property tax due that month for our office building that was going to be difficult to pay for in light of the circumstances. For years, we avoided such extravagant vacations, so this one was particularly special.

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Debt Emergency Fund 2007 2020 130