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Question Period – MeIt has been crazy around here with all the packing we are doing. Tomorrow we close on the house we bought and getting ready for the move has been fun. 2011 had numbers that were just plain ugly. It had moments that were bad for our finances but now I want to go over some of the really good numbers that the budget contains.
In my last post I went over some pretty ugly numbers. Now I want to go over the things that happened that were just plain bad, but not so bad that they were ugly. Everyone has numbers like this. I think it would be hard to find someone who stayed on track for an entire year and had all roses and sunshine in their budget. I have some sunshine and roses, but in my last post I looked at the manure that was in my budget. Now I plan on looking at just the dirt.
The budgeting spreadsheet I use has a nice little feature on a sheet called “Overview.” This sheet will tell me exactly how much money is left in each account. It will also tell me how much money I had as income in every month that I’ve budgeted and finally the biggest section on that sheet is the part where it shows how much has been spent on a year to date basis broken down by the categories I have.
