Jumpstart Your Financial Future With this Simple Budgeting Ratio
This is possibly not a new concept to you but there are two main things that you can do with money. You can save it or you can spend it. Now you also ...
3 Important Questions to Ask Before Setting Your First Financial Goals
I am so excited to bring you all along on the journey to more organized and successful financial journey! Today we start out simple with a review of y...
10 strategies to stop unexpected expenses blowing out your budget
You can make a budget living paycheck to paycheck. While it is possible to get by in this fashion, there is always the fear of unexpected expenses. Li...
7 Ways to NOT Become Rich
Now we all know money can’t buy everything. In fact, sometimes money can be more of a hindrance than a help. So, for those who say they never ...
Say Goodbye to Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Beginning Growth
This post is part of a series. To start the series from the beginning, click here. To browse through the series, click here. The pre-teen years ar...
Low Spend September – 5 Tips
Every year around early fall and also in mid winter, I get the bug to stop spending money. This is probably because I’m so into my home projec...
Reconciling your Savings
Last week, we discussed how to reconcile your checking account based on your projections. This week, we will begin reconciling the savings account a...
Reconciling Your Monthly Expenses
Last week, we learned how to use our spreadsheet to build a savings account or rainy day fund. This week, we will use our spreadsheet to reconcile o...
Using Your Excel Spreadsheet to Build Rainy Day Savings
Now that we have our savings account created and have determined our saving schedule, we can use our spreadsheet to predict how long it will take to b...
Working with Your Excel Budgeting Spreadsheet
Last week we made our spreadsheet a bit more robust by adding in a Checking account and Savings account rows. If you need to review, you can find th...