Spreadsheets

poohzee

Hi All

Happy New Year.

I am trying to get organised this year with budgeting, cleaning etc and although I have found your fabby calendar I was wondering if there are any other things I can download, like menu planners, shopping list etc??
Many thanks x

mdhughes03

I would be interested too, I LOVE spreadsheets (very sad!) and only really have ones I have made myself

Byatt

mdhughes03 wrote: »

I would be interested too, I LOVE spreadsheets (very sad!) and only really have ones I have made myself

Is there an idiot proof guide on spreadsheets? I'd love to be able to do them, but find them daunting.

seabright

poohzee wrote: »

I have found your fabby calendar

What's the fabby calendar? I use fairly basic spreadsheets, one for a (rough) budget and one for my meter readings. They aren't very flashy, but I could email them to you if you wanted to use them as a starting point. PM me your email address if you want.

I think I might have spreadsheet another MSE'er sent me once too. Somewhere.

seabright

Have found the spreadsheet another MSE'er sent me now. It's more complicated, but very thorough (and colourful)

poohzee

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3686039

The link for the calendar x

poohzee

mdhughes03 wrote: »

I would be interested too, I LOVE spreadsheets (very sad!) and only really have ones I have made myself

OMG I LOVE spreadsheets too!!! Love filling them in and then colouring the boxes!! Sad sad sad!!

mdhughes03

Oh colour-coded, even better! I love the calculators on here too, the demotivator and savings account calculators really help me see the bigger picture

Aarons_mummy

o0o0o0o colour coded spreadsheets are like my heaven (I know, I lead a very sad life).

I have made up one for this year but thinking of making up some more for various things and updating them throughout the year. I also print mine off usually but instead this year I added to an A4 project book I bought for just 20p which contains all my organisation for the year.

There are many various templates on the general web but i can't say I've seen one from the oldstylers. I only have the ones I have made myself based on idea's from the budget spreadsheet and general web ones

angeltreats

Santa got me an "I Heart Spreadsheets" mug this year and very appropriate it is too. I'm a complete Excel geek. I'm especially obsessed with vlookups and conditional formatting! DH is also an Excel geek so we are well matched.

I keep meaning to do a proper budget spreadsheet with all the incomings/outgoings so we can keep track of it all properly. I do have a big costings spreadsheet though where I can work out exactly how much a recipe costs me to make including any packaging and how much I would need to sell it for to cover costs/make a profit etc, for if I do a craft fair or someone wants a cake made etc. I have one sheet where I list all the ingredients I use, with prices, pack sizes etc. Then another sheet with all the packaging (muffin cases, labels etc). And a template that I can copy for every new recipe, where all I have to do is select the ingredients from a drop down menu and type in the quantity or weight and it pulls all the other details across and does all the sums. I love my costing spreadsheet Bit sad really.

I also have much more simple ones for things like Christmas present lists (budget for each person, what I've bought them, how much I have left to spend on them etc etc).

Kittenkirst

Snap! I got that mug as my leaving present from my old role at work! I personally love pivot tables: much handier than graphs :0)

Hmmm may have to sneak s pivot into my accounts s/sheet now lol