FREE Spreadsheet to help with budget - in addition to Martin's one

EagerLearner

Lower left hand side of this page - under MoneySaving Tools - Budget.

Or top menu of this page, under QuickJump - Tools - Budget.

Enjoy & hope you then use my spreadsheet as an addition once you've worked out your main budget.

Please come back with any feedback as to how much you have saved etc - helps everyone!

EagerLearner

Wow - 837 Downloads to date! That's pretty amazing and I hope you are all saving some money!

Lord_Gardener

Have passed this on to my sister who needs to know what she is spending!

EagerLearner

Excellent - the more the merrier - do pass it on!

EagerLearner

In response to a query - this may help anyone who has downloaded this spreadsheet:

Savings Tower Format

You may prefer to view the savings 'tower' in normal format, rather than 3D - for this, simply right-click, select 'chart type' and select the top middle option, this will change the chart to a plain tower which may be easier for you to read. See what you think.

Hashes Appearing in Columns

This normally happens when the figure you have in the cell is quite high - simply widen the column to eliminate this problem. Click on the top of the column (grey area) and when the mouse changes to a widening symbol, drag the column until the hashes dissapear.

EagerLearner

MSE have now allowed me to include this spreadsheet link in my signature as over 1,150 downloads have taken place!

You can also use the spreadsheet savings tab as a 'debt pot' rather than a 'savings pot' - and see the 'tower' going down every month :T :T :T

EagerLearner

Please note that this spreadsheet has been amended further with formulas and to include even more detailed instructions - 1,778 downloads as of today!

fish1000

Google now have a free online spreadsheet in case you don't have one installed on your machine:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/

Rex_Mundi

If you go to the instructions page of the download. You will also find a link there to download the completely free Open Office. With this, you can open and edit this spreadsheet to help you with your spending. Open Office is very handy (and free) for anyone that doesn't have Microsoft Office on their computer.

EagerLearner

Thanks Rex, this will help lots of people have access to it (I'm spoilt as I have Excel already) - plus, being free, OpenOffice is also moneysaving :T :T :T