First of all, thank you so much for all of your awesome comments on our "Year of Money Tracking and Budgeting" post. And thank you to the fantastic money-saving blog, "Lean with Green" for the praise as well! You guys all rock.
Many of you asked about the spreadsheet I use to track our money. So I "scrubbed" our money tracking and budgeting spreadsheet of all of the real numbers and made every number equal $100 and posted it to google documents here.
Note: You must have basic knowledge of MS Excel and Excel formulas to use this multi-tabbed spreadsheet. But if you do know how to use Excel, you'll see that the formulas are already in there for you. You just need to download the document and plug in your own numbers. You'll need to add more tabs for each month of the year.
Our big financial goal this year is to do steps 1-4 of Dave Ramsey's Seven Baby Steps. We've already completed step 1! And step 2 shouldn't be that hard because we don't have any credit card debt.
Have any of you done Dave Ramsey?
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We are DR die hards in this house ;) We live & breathe his ways. We are currently on Step 4 and will hopefully be moving on to Step 5 at some point in the next few years.
It really is a wonderful program to follow!
This is awesome, thank you for sharing your spreadsheet! I am not the best at tracking expenses, but it is definitely a goal of mine to be better. I've only recently heard of Dave Ramsey, I'll check out the Baby Steps.
Wow! I'm so curious about this program now! Hope you had a good labor day!
I LOVE Dave Ramsey! We are working on Baby Step 2 also! I want these cars paid off!!!!
I so want to read his stuff and just haven't gotten around to it. Thanks for sharing your spreadsheet!!
Thank you so much for posting your spreadsheet! Hubby and I have been trying to figure how how we want to do our budget tracking and this is a great way to start!
We've never done DR, but looking at Steps 1-7, we skipped step 5 and are on step 6! SO YAY.
Our motto has always been to live within your means while still putting money in savings. Always. I like this spreadsheet and might have to use it!
Thanks for sharing the spreadsheets! My husband and I got married in April and we started trying to keep detailed records--but, I'm not thrilled with the spreadsheet I created. So, thanks for sharing!
your spreadsheet rocked! my husband loved it as well. I did one for the month of august so I could get an idea of our spending...lets just say we could cut our going out to dinner in half, still have fun going out and be able to afford the new suv I want/need!
I love your post! This is so helpful!
This is great! I'm actually blogging about Dave tomorrow! :)
We are BFF with Dave Ramsey. I love his way of thinking! We're big savers over here!
hubby and I have been back and forth with DR but haven't yet committed completely. good post.
We are die hard DR fans. We are currently finishing up baby step 2 and looking forward to continuing down the road of progress
I just started looking at Dave Ramsey's steps and without knowing anything about him or his program we are already on step 5 and are doing really well with it. Good luck!
We are currently on baby step 2, stupid student loans... Hoping to get those knocked out this year!
I've heard alot about this guy, i'm going to check him out.
We are in the midst of the baby step 2. I think Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover is the way to manage your money and is totally life-chaning.
Good luck!
We are big fans of Dave Ramsey and his financial peace workshop! We are currently working our way through steps 2-4, can't wait to have them completed-darn student loans! Love your spreadsheet, we have a similar one that I track our budget and spending for each month in.
Do you guys follow the DR school of thought where you take each paycheck and "spend" every dollar of it before it comes in? I can't quite bring myself to do the cash in the envelopes system, I like the security of my credit cards too much!
I posted about our budget a little while ago if you're interested, I have a feeling we have a similar system! http://thelifeaccounts.blogspot.com/2010/08/breaking-it-down.html
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