Google Docs Family Budget Template

Sylvia Brown November 22, 2019 FamilyBudget

More often then not when we start to speak about a home budget or budget spreadsheet, we tend to focus on the setting up and the working with the budget; as if that was all there was to running a family`s home budget; never touching on the broader and more general aspects of home budgeting that interlace to form a overall successful financial picture. The successfulness of your budget spreadsheet will be reflected in how you handle, define, and process all of your financial information. For todays discussion, we will only focus on your family`s checkbook and the effects misinformation can have your family`s home budget.

A budget needs to estimate your average (yearly) income. Spending, which will be relatively constant, needs to be maintained below that amount. A budget should allow for error and so keeping expenses 5% or 10% below the estimated income is a conservative approach. When done correctly, your budget should end any given year with about 5% of their income left over. Of course being conservative and having more than 5% is never a bad idea.

By involving children into what is generally an adult task and conversation topic, they will soon learn the value of money and want to contribute positively in the family joint venture. If your children receive pocket money or income from an after-school job, encourage them to make their own budget to manage their money and too stick to it. This can prove invaluable to them later on in life.

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One of the greatest and most essential aspect of balancing your budget is bringing together any high interest debts repayments which you may have currently. This will potentially save you plenty of dollars in interest repayments alone, as well as the strain of having these debts constantly hanging over you and your family`s head. Debt consolidation is an essential item which you are able to easily do yourself if you are economically clever, alternatively you might just have the inclination to recruit the resources of a specialist business to assist you with this extremely critical task.