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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. Knowing that newer models aren’t cheap, I devised a plan…and a spreadsheet. Financial Goals – Use this spreadsheet to quantify your financial goals for the current year and years to come.

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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I treated the baking process like it was an end in itself and not a tool to get what I wanted. Once you’ve made some financial goals that motivate and inspire you, try and put dollar amounts around them. Once your financial goals and costs are set, now you add in your income and expenses.

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10 Ways to $ave Energy Comfortably

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Author Bio: Sustainable PF writes with his wife, Mrs. SPF out of Ontario, Canada, at Sustainable Personal Finance where they discuss and explore the fine balance between their personal financial goals and their lifestyle and beliefs regarding sustainable living. This is another relatively cheap thing to do.

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Guest Post: 10 Ways to $ave Energy Comfortably

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Author Bio: Sustainable PF writes with his wife, Mrs. SPF out of Ontario, Canada, at Sustainable Personal Finance where they discuss and explore the fine balance between their personal financial goals and their lifestyle and beliefs regarding sustainable living. This is another relatively cheap thing to do.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

He’s a cheap date – but then, so am I. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears were shed here, but we both agree that having no mortgage gave us a serious leg up on our retirement savings and other financial goals. It’s a tool, and it provides security and options. You don’t have to be cheap to be frugal.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 10.06.17

Family Balance Sheet

It’s a tight budget and I failed miserably recently, but we have lots of financial goals, so I need to get it back in line. Friday: I’m grilling burgers (again) that I found marked down really cheap, garden salad, applesauce. My #1 Simple Tool that Saves Me Hundreds. Thursday: grilled porkchops.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Little House presents The Five Tool Budgeter posted at Little House in the Valley , saying, “In baseball, a five-tool player is one who excels in some of the game’s major skills: fielding, base running, hitting for power, hitting for contact, and throwing ability.

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