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Free Household Budget Spreadsheet Template

Plan household income, essential bills, flexible spending, and savings with planned-versus-actual totals and documented assumptions.

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Make this household budget fit your month.

Open the workbook and ask Griddy to adapt income, bills, spending, savings, owners, or review rules.

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What is in this workbook?

This workbook has three sheets: Household Dashboard, Household Cash Plan, and Setup. Household Dashboard is the quick-review surface, Household Cash Plan is the editable working log, and Setup holds supporting inputs, reusable context, or working rules.

How the workflow and formulas work

Use Household Cash Plan for each line, category, revenue-or-expense type, planned amount, actual amount, favorable variance, actual net effect, status, owner, and review note; document the inputs behind the plan in Setup. Revenue variance is Actual minus Planned, while expense variance is Planned minus Actual. Household Dashboard subtracts expenses from revenue to show planned net, actual net, and performance instead of mixing income with costs.

How to use it in Griddy

Replace the sample values before sharing, then review the calculated Household Dashboard fields after editing the working log. The workbook includes a dropdown validation resource and a conditional-formatting resource for the relevant review or status fields.

Keep sensitive records out of the workbook

Use rounded planning values and keep account numbers, passwords, and payment credentials out of the workbook. This is not financial advice. This workbook is a planning aid and does not replace accounting, legal, HR, tax, or education-record systems.

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Do this with AI

Make this household budget fit your month.

Open the workbook and ask Griddy to adapt income, bills, spending, savings, owners, or review rules.

Open free household budgetFree to start. No download required.
Also works withExcel Google Sheets