Simple Family Budget Sheet

Kimberly Steinhoff November 28, 2019 FamilyBudget

A great exercise to start of your financial budget project is to ask each member of the family to make a list of ten relevant points (for example) regarding their financial needs, expectations, goals and visions. Add a second part to that list that shows their usual expenses. When everyone is finished with his or her individual list - discuss each point of each list together. Identify which items that are normally purchased during the course of the month - that can be eliminated without hardship, in order to save extra money from the monthly income. By doing this together, your family is participating and can see their contributions will help to make the family finances better.

Good family budget software will help you learn when to make these right decisions to secure your family`s financial security. There is one program that emphasizes not spending more than what you earned in the previous month, and also to put every dollar to work in some capacity. This makes a lot of sense and it is no wonder why this program has become so popular.

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.

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