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12-31-2008, 12:12 AM #1Registered User
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Franklin Covey Budget Worksheet--Anyone Use This?
Does anyone use the Franklin Covey budget worksheet to do your budget? I have used it for awhile but am not sure I really like it.
What budgeting method do you use? What makes it "work" for you?May Goals:
Only $300 for groceries this month - $206/$300
Monthly coupon/valued customer savings = $14.08
No wasted food!
Stick to budget!
Track spending DAILY
Get checkbook balanced
Save $200 toward EF: $85/$200
2012 FV Challenges: Try New Recipes Challenge: 22/52, Menu Planning Challenge: 21/52, Grocery Reduction Budget Challenge, Change Jar Challenge: $27.81 as of 1-14-12, Lose A Pound A Week Challenge: 3/48, No Wasted Food Challenge
2012 Goals
1. To pay off CC (only $917.15 left!) and never again charge more than I can pay off each month.
3.Snowball the CC and Sears card payments into hospital bill (due w/ Baby #2 via C-section in mid-January). Pay that off ASAP.4. Snowball payments into DH's student loan (as of 12/4/11 there's still $4770.84 remaining). Pay off by 12/31/12.
5. Keep our grocery budget to $300 each month.
6. Use Dave Ramsey's budget sheet and get on track with this each pay period.
7. Get and keep checkbook balanced and keep an eye (weekly if not daily) on our e-statements.
8. Get savings account up to $8,000 (incl. emergency fund)
9. Make 2 Christmas gifts per month: 0/24.
10. Get our home organized: use a receipt book, keep my coupon organizer in check, have a touch-once policy for paper (touch once and then file or toss).
11. Achieve "give or get" goal of $1500 for the board I serve on by 9/30/12.
12. Taxes filed by March 17.
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12-31-2008, 07:34 AM #2Registered User
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I have a binder I keep everything in, so I just use pencil and paper. It's simple and works for me.
DJ
Married to DH since 1993
DD age 16
DS age 14
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12-31-2008, 08:46 AM #3Rude and Vile Master
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We use quicken to track the various bank accounts. We use a notebook with a "fund worksheet" for each of our various funds. We use envelopes for grocery and dining out money. We have a white board upon which we record our monthly info.
No one system works for us, so we mix and match.If you could kick in the pants the person responsible for your problems, you wouldn't be able to sit for a month.
Did you know that a 4 year student paying $20,000/year who finances their education graduates with over $103,000 in debt to start? But a student who works and pays cash and takes 6 years to graduate ends with $6,300 in their pocket! So much for "getting a head start by financing!"
Greebo(Nerd Spender): Loving and extremely patiently tolerated husband of ceashels.
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ThreeTwo mortgages,twooneno car loans,oneno credit cards, and a partridge in pear tree!
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