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Budget Categories Planner
Build a budget that actually reflects where your money goes.
Use your Budget Categories Planner to organise regular bills, everyday spending, lifestyle costs, savings and financial goals into clear categories. Set a monthly amount for each area, compare it with actual spending and decide which categories need more or less room in your budget. Everything you enter saves automatically on this device.
Set Your Limits.
Build A Better Budget.
✦ CATEGORY OVERVIEW ✦
Set Up Your Budget
Decide which month or budget period these categories are for and set an overall spending target.✦ ESSENTIAL LIVING COSTS ✦
Home & Household
Keep the essential costs of running your home together.✦ FOOD & EVERYDAY LIVING ✦
Food & Household Spending
Separate essential food shopping from takeaways, eating out and household extras.✦ GETTING AROUND ✦
Transport & Car
Give regular vehicle costs and day-to-day travel their own space in your budget.✦ LIFE & LIFESTYLE ✦
Personal Spending
Plan for the spending that makes life enjoyable without letting it disappear into one big miscellaneous category.✦ PET BUDGET ✦
Pets
Keep regular pet expenses separate so food, health and other costs are easier to plan for.✦ MONEY GOALS ✦
Savings & Debt Categories
Treat savings and repayments as real parts of the budget instead of whatever is left at the end.✦ MAKE IT YOURS ✦
Your Own Budget Categories
Add categories that are specific to your household, lifestyle or financial priorities.✦ YOUR BUDGET AT A GLANCE ✦
Category Totals
See how much of your income you have assigned and whether your actual spending stayed within the plan.✦ CATEGORY CHECK-IN ✦
What Needs Adjusting?
Use your category totals to decide what needs more room, what needs cutting back and what should stay exactly as it is.✦ CATEGORY NOTES ✦
Anything Else to Remember
Keep category ideas, upcoming changes and useful budget reminders here.✦ THE MONEY SUITE PRINTABLE ✦
✦ DIGITAL PRINTABLE ✦
Prefer to organise your budget categories on paper?
Use the matching Budget Categories Planner printable to organise household costs, everyday spending, personal expenses, savings and financial goals into clear categories before building your monthly budget.
YOUR PRINTABLE CAN INCLUDE
Open the matching printable page above.
✦ Give every part of your spending a place, then build a budget around your real life. ✦