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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! That is why I created Family Budget Spreadsheets — a bundle of spreadsheets that we personally use to plan and budget our money. I created it as a way to communicate our finances to my husband.

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Money Matters: How to Prepare Your Finances for a Recession

Motherhood Moments

Maliga shares several ways to prepare for a recession: Prepare a bare bones budget. Prepare ahead of time and create a bare bones budget that includes only your essentials — think food, shelter, clothes, transportation and insurance — so you have a plan in the event that you experience a loss of income or need to cut expenses suddenly.

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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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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

Family Balance Sheet

I’m going to be spending the next few weeks giving my family’s finances a good spring cleaning. 7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances. As the family office manager of my home, I needed a succinct way to discuss our finances with my husband. Related Reading: I offer a FREE excel download to my email subscribers.

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Create a Family Balance Sheet | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

Family Balance Sheet

Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. 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. I developed this worksheet years ago when I needed a way to talk to my husband about our finances.

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Baby Budgeting: How to Save for Your New Arrival

Koupon Karen

But with careful planning and budgeting, you can still provide your little one with everything they need while saving for their future. But with a little planning and some savvy budgeting tricks, you can ensure you’re financially ready to welcome your bundle of joy. Stick to your budget and only buy what you truly need.

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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I like to bake cookies, and I like to budget. I’ve failed at many budgets this way. If you Google how to make a budget, you’ll find the same boilerplate list of steps on thousands of sites. This is what I like to call the Toll House budget. Do you want to be debt free? So, how do you manage your finances?

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