Personal Finance: Budget Tracker Template

My manual budget tracker template. I like manually logging all my expenses so that I'm kept aware of all my spending and will always know whether I'm on track. 

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Why get this? (besides it being free, of course!)

📊 Manual = managed. I like manually logging all my expenses myself (instead of relying on whatever swipe data accumulates on my credit card. I’m kept aware and guilty of spending. This is the one manual thing in my life that I don’t want to automate, otherwise I’ll never stay accountable to it.

🤸‍♀️ Control & flexibility. I despise all the automatic expense trackers out there. They mis-categorize your expense data, and you have no flexibility in how you’ll view and see the data. This way, I have a flexible spreadsheet that I can always cater to my needs.

🛍️ Better data & understanding of yourself. It's also SO REWARDING to have data on your expenses over time. You know how to better plan for starting a company, making big purchases, changing your lifestyle and more. It's also great to understand how your psychological cycles of spending fluctuate over time.

The package includes
- Google Forms template to simply log expenses whenever you make them
- An easy-to-follow guide on how to set the right budget
- An analysis of your spending with simple charts to see your spending behavior over time 
- Dummy data to give a preview of how it works 
- An indication of whether you are above your intended budget 
- Instructions of how to use