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Introducing: Family Budget Spreadsheets

Family Balance Sheet

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. There was a month in 2013 where I hadn’t planned on a large property tax bill and I wasn’t sure where we were going to find the money.

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How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!)

Family Balance Sheet

Many years ago, our cash flow sucked, we put Christmas on a credit card, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay for a large tax bill. If they are, you can consider putting the extra funds into an emergency fund, pay off a credit card, or save for another financial goal. ” We’ve been there too.

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