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How My Fantastic Couples Personal Finance Spreadsheet System Helps Me Save Money

Jordan Robison
10 min readDec 13, 2023

Personal finance is a critical aspect of our lives. Effectively managing personal finances is essential to achieving financial stability and success. A personal finance spreadsheet is one of the most powerful tools for managing your finances. A personal finance spreadsheet provides a clear and concise view of your finances. By tracking your income, expenses, debts, and investments, you can see exactly where your money is going and identify areas where you can improve your financial situation. Tracking can help you make better financial decisions and achieve your financial goals more quickly and easily.

They Taught Me, What?

Managing my finances has gone through so many different iterations I’ve lost count. When I was but a teenager in the 1990s, adults taught me the value of balancing one’s checkbook back when everyone was still writing checks.

Then, the digital world caught up. Balancing a checkbook was no longer needed. However, being able to track our income, expenses, goals, and investments stayed.

I have tried many recommended templates and apps, thinking they were somehow better than what I could do. Most of the time, I found these so-called professionally created personal finance templates more complicated than…

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