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Family Budget Spreadsheets 2021

Family Balance Sheet

If your fresh start for the New Year includes improving your finances, you are not alone! 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. I created it as a way to communicate our finances to my husband.

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Introducing: Family Budget Spreadsheets

Family Balance Sheet

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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Benefit from My Financial Mistakes

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Instead, I picked my major based on the courses I enjoyed – without considering how that major would help me earn a living. It would have pleased my folks if I had accepted and it would have helped our finances out too! Starting college right after high school, I had no clue about which careers I should consider.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. My family’s finances have also been affected. As the Family Office Manager , I handle the day-to-day finances for our family and I needed a way to communicate our finances to my husband. Everything changed. I still use my spreadsheet to this day!

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Selling Your Investment Property?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They might include things such as fees charged for obtaining a mortgage; cost of home inspections; homeowner’s insurance; title insurance and settlement fees; property taxes or transfer taxes. Of course, you have taxes every year you own the property as well. Capital Gains.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

A few years back, I hit my all-time high by borrowing 126 books over the course of one year. Although my parents never specifically taught me about finances, they lived a frugal life by necessity. I learned from the best, but I believe that a personal finance course should be a requirement for both high school and college graduation.

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The Best And Worst States To Retire In 2023, Ranked

Savings Corner

And, of course, not everyone likes the sweltering summers of the Sun Belt states. Iowa lands near the middle of the pack tax-wise. 23 for property taxes and No. 22 for state and local sales tax. It’s important to note our ranking is simply a starting point for making a decision. The state ranks No.

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