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Budget yourself and increase your frugality

One of the most important aspects of being Frugal is keeping track of all your incomings and outgoings in order to determine the best way to cut-back funds and determine where you can save a little more money.

With a simple spreadsheet, or even a hand-filled printed list, you can meticulously track your progress each month and set important goals to work towards.

I was going to make some myself, but searching around I realized that there was a number of great free budget sheets available around the web. Therefore, I decided to compile a bunch of them in one place so that you may find the best ones to suit your needs:

Better Budgeting

Better Budgeting offer a variety of budget sheets including Basic Budgeting Worksheet, Dealing with Debt Worksheet , Monthly Spending Worksheet, Annual Budget Worksheet and Holiday Budgeting. All these worksheets are provided in an easy printable form.

Foxway
Foxway offer some great spreadsheet and worksheets (including Weekly Expense Record, Goal Chart, MyBudgetPlanner and Foxway Budget Tracker Spreadsheet) and a standalone budget program which may help you.

Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Online offer a great Family monthly budget planner link for use with excel and may be able to be imported into other spreadsheet programs.

Woman’s Divorce
Although this site is about divorce, they do have online Budget Worksheets which can be used by everyone.

Love to Know
This site offer some budget worksheets, as well as advice for budgets based on your income(s).

I am sure after looking at your budget you will instantly realize how much money you are losing and you’ll see areas where you can apply your frugal ideas.

Let me know how you get along and what you do to cut back in certain areas.

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This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 4:23 am and is filed under Saving Money & Finances. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Budget yourself and increase your frugality”

  1. JK Swopes Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    Good tips man, I can see this is shaping up to be quite a good resource of a site! Nice job

  2. Forest Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 3:16 am

    Thanks JK, everyone should make sure they live on some kind of set budget…. even if you have plenty of cash!

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