Building the OTHER portion of the budget, I feel is the worst.
I used to have an other categorey for everything that other then Bills, Food, and Gas. As you could guess this budget was a HUGE strain for the whole family.
In 2010 the years AVERAGE "OTHER" budget was $1,200, and it continued this way until this year. It bugged me that I had NO IDEA where money really was going.
I looked and looked and looked for all different ideas this is what I came up for with categories.
Clothes
Dates
Education
Entertainment
Food
Housing
Kids Supplies
Office
Personal
Pet Supplies
Savings
Shopping
Technology
Toiletries
Toys/Gear
Transportation repairs
Vacation
I don't use all of these, and I feel that each family has to choose between having too many and not enough. Over the last 8 months ours has morphed, but right now these are out categories.
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Church
Clothes
Dates
Gifts
House
Personal
Shady (dog)
Spending
Once you have all of these figured out you are ready to finally FULLY build the budget!
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