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Early Life Investments
A Family Financial Head Start

“The best time to build lifelong money habits is when you are young. The second-best time is today.”

Educational only: The author of Early Life Investments is not a Certified Financial Planner. The content here reflects the author's personal opinions and experience and is for general educational purposes only. Read the full disclaimer.

Workbook — Budgeting · Created October 5, 2026 · 1 min read

Monthly Bill Tracker

Catch every recurring charge before it catches you.

Recurring charges are the quietest money you spend. A tab per month, every bill with a due date beside it, and the ones you forgot become visible the first time you fill it in.

Download: MonthlyBillTracker.xlsx — free, no email required, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.

What This Workbook Does

  • A tab for January and a second covering February through December, so a full year lives in one file.
  • Bill, balance, due date, amount due and amount paid on every row.
  • Enough structure to catch the subscriptions, the quarterly bills and the annual premiums that a monthly budget usually misses.

How to Use It

  1. List every recurring charge, including the quarterly and annual ones. Those are the ones that break budgets.
  2. Put the due date beside each. Late fees are the most avoidable money you will ever spend.
  3. Fill in amount due and amount paid as the month runs.
  4. At the end of the first full year, read back the annual and quarterly rows — that total is usually the surprise.

What It Will Not Do

This is a record, not a forecast. It tells you what you are paying and when; deciding what to cut is a separate conversation.

Every workbook on this site is free. The full set — budgeting, debt, career, real estate and the kids’ sheets — is on the Worksheets & Planners page.

Where to go next: How to Budget — turning this record into a plan; The Three-Account Banking System — where the bill money should sit; Moving Out for the First Time — the first version of this list.