Summary: To budget for your road trip, plan ahead and don’t eat out that much. Tip: Order some Huel for cheap, healthy, and convenient meals for the road. Download my spreadsheet to make budget planning easy and organized. When I think about a road trip, I think about driving for 1,000 miles with some broke college friends on a low budget spring break trip for a couple hundred bucks. Reality, however, is often much different …
Since I’ve started running this blog, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my own personal finances. Particularly about where I should store my savings. I was shopping around for an online savings account when a question came to my mind. Can I spend money from my savings account? I feel like that’s something I should know. So I did a little digging around myself and came up with this answer: No you can’t. …
If you don’t like reading, just download the excel budgeting template here. Do you know the key to financial freedom? Hint: it’s not having lots of money. If you look at lottery winners, they are twice as likely to declare bankruptcy compared to the national average. The key to financial freedom is budgeting (with an Excel template in this case). Having a budget shows you exactly where your money goes and where it should go. …
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Use this personal budget calculator to see how much money you should be spending according to Dave Ramsey’s site. Just type in your take home income (per month, per year, doesn’t matter). The calculator will show you where your money should be going. If you want to keep track of this info in a budgeting sheet, check out my free Excel budgeting template. Feel free to click around my site for more budgeting, saving, and …