How To Organize Monthly Expenses

Organizing your monthly expenses is key to tracking your spending and creating a plan for your finances that fits within your budget.

A lack of organization can also lead to important papers being lost, like any receipt you may need for reimbursements or important bills that will accrue late fees if they are not dealt with promptly.

HOW TO TRACK YOUR EXPENSES TO CREATE AN ACCURATE MONTHLY BUDGET 

Create specific categories for each expense and sort them into their respective piles. Then, you will get rid of anything that needs to be recycled.

SORT AND CATEGORIZE

Write down all of the expenses from the combination of paper bills, electronic bills, expense receipts, and any other monthly spending.

LIST THE EXPENSES

These can all be sorted into the monthly expense tracker section of the template, and slowly you will see the individual spending expenses stack up.

If you go through and notice that that gym you haven’t been to in over 8 months is still billing you, then it is probably time to cancel it. Cutting out that useless expense is worth it!

CUT OUT THE UNNECESSARY

Since you have gone through, organized, and cut out unnecessary expenses from your monthly spending, it is time to build a budget that works for you.

BUILD YOUR BUDGET

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