This helps us see the big picture of all of our moving parts at once, and how they interact with each other. The first sheet in the doc is the Income-Savings-Expense Sheet, or ISE for short. I know that sounds like a TON, but bear with me! The doc starts out with a number of aggregate sheets, then goes into the Person 1 section, then the Person 2 section, then the Joint section. Our budget is made up of several sheets - 100, to be exact. Remember to MAKE A COPY before you start entering your info, or else you’ll be editing the original doc and everyone will see your info! :) To start using our dummy doc for yourself, open the doc, click on File –> make a copy, rename it if you’d like, then click OK. John has put together a dummy copy of our budget for you all to use if you’d like, and it will probably help to open that doc in another tab so you can reference it while you read. There are a LOT of moving parts to our budgeting system, but I’ll walk you through them. does not have an interest in record keeping likes to look at spending data over time is a more natural saver than spender / likes to know exactly where her money is going (To give credit where credit is due, it was inspired by a budget Jenna’s husband designed.) Let’s start by laying out a few pros and cons of our system: Our system was custom designed by John on Google Docs. Seriously, if you can stick to a budget, I truly believe your life possibilities will expand rapidly in front of you.Īlright, on with it. It might take several tries to find a system that is aligned with your strengths and guards against your weaknesses, but once you find it, you’ll be golden. And that’s the point - if there’s one thing I’d like for you to take away from these posts, it’s to find a tracking system that works for you, and stick to it. The reason I say that is because it is not the simplest system (at least on the surface), but it works very well for us. By the end, you might think I’m a genius, or you might think I’m absolutely insane. ![]() Today is the day! The day I’m going to walk you through exactly how John and I track our budget. Marvelous Money: Tracking your budget with Google Docs 2 April 2013
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