✦ HAVENLY LIFE • HOME HAVEN ✦
Home Management Budget
Keep the everyday cost of running your home organised without losing sight of the bigger picture.
Use your Home Management Budget to organise regular household costs, utilities, supplies, maintenance, services and less-frequent expenses in one place. Everything you enter saves automatically on this device.
Track the Costs.
Stay in Control.
✦ HOME BUDGET OVERVIEW ✦
Start With Your Home Budget
Set the month or period you are planning for, then give your household costs one realistic overall budget.✦ HOUSEHOLD COSTS ✦
Build Your Home Management Budget
Add the regular and occasional costs involved in running your home, then update the actual amount as the month progresses.| ITEM / EXPENSE | CATEGORY | ESTIMATED | ACTUAL | PAID? |
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✦ COST CATEGORIES ✦
Where Is the Money Going?
Keep rough allowances for the main parts of your project so you can see where the budget is being used.✦ HOUSEHOLD BUFFER ✦
Leave Room for the Unexpected
Households always seem to find an extra cost. Keep a small buffer for repairs, price changes or expenses that were not in the original plan.✦ UPCOMING COSTS ✦
Costs Still to Come
Keep irregular and upcoming household expenses visible so they do not catch the monthly budget by surprise.✦ HOME BUDGET NOTES ✦
Bills, Renewals & Things to Remember
Keep renewal dates, bill notes, provider changes and anything else that affects your household costs together.THE HAVENLY WAY
A home budget should make everyday life clearer, not more restrictive.
Give regular costs a home, plan ahead for the less-frequent ones and leave yourself room to adjust when real life does not match the spreadsheet.✦ HOME HAVEN PRINTABLE ✦
✦ DIGITAL PRINTABLE ✦
Prefer to plan your improvement budget on paper?
Use the matching Home Management Budget printable to plan household running costs, record actual spending and keep utilities, supplies, maintenance and less-frequent expenses together on paper.
YOUR PRINTABLE CAN INCLUDE
Open the matching printable page above.
✦ A realistic budget gives your home projects room to grow without letting the spending run away with them. ✦