Budget and Goals Time
Happy New Years Eve! Yea, 2020 is over and in the books tomorrow. 2020 is a year that we will all want to forget. I am optimistic that 2021 is going to be better by a mile. I don’t see how it could have been any worse.
In 2020 we lost my Mom to COVID-19 and other health issues. We lost our Sister Audrey who was only 41 years old. We had to wear Masks and many businesses were closed up at times or had restrictions. Then on top of that our boys missed out on Home Coming, Prom, a formal Graduation and had to do school on-line at times. What a crazy year. So, 2021 has to be better right?
Now is the time to review your 2021 Budgets and Goals for you and your family. We do actuals each month of our expenses and then do a rolling recap for the year. Darlene and myself review our past years expenses when we are doing our next year’s Budgets and Goals.
Things that we didn’t Budget for in 2020 that came up was some Medical Issues we had that we didn’t plan on. They were over $6,200. We put in a Shed for our folks which was over $8,300 that we didn’t Budget for. Then we had some major Car repairs that were over $4,500 that we didn’t plan on. Then we had Funeral Expenses that we split with my Sister for our Mom and we Published a New Book this year. We had $22,000 of expenses that came up in 2020 that we didn’t plan for this year. That can happen each year and that is why we keep any Emergency Fund to help our in these crazy years. Most years we can come in below our Budget or just barely over but not in 2020.
Our family keeps our Budget, Gift giving breakout and Yearly Goals posted in our Bedroom so we can see it easily everyday to help keep us on track towards our goals. Besides doing our end of the month recaps and then having a meeting to cover them.
Our 2020 Goals was messed up big time with COVID-19 and all the crazy things that came up. We hit some goals but others we didn’t. Due to COVID our goals we had for our Disney Cruise was not hit because they canceled the trip. We had goals for taking the boys to special events and that didn’t happen. Then we had goals for taking the boys to movies that didn’t happen. It wasn’t all doom and gloom for our 2020 goals, we did hit a few of them. I don’t think we ever had a year that we hit every goal anyway. Things come up.
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This new year our family goals is about the same as 2020 except for less trips planned and lower expenses. We revised our Budget for 2021 with less expenses since Logan Graduated and having less Vacations planned. We have a Budget for our family Expenses of $50,000. Let’s hope we can come in under that.
Having a personal budget is like work. The place you work needs to spend less on expenses than they bring in for income. That is no different than your own personal budget. It is simple Math.
What is your situation? Do you have a Budget? Do you track your expenses each month or not? A budget is worthless exercise somewhat if you don’t track your expenses and do a recap to see if you won for the month or not. Same with a yearly recap. Some people use Envelope Budgets, Zero Budgets or even Reverse Budgets. What is most important is the one that works best for your situation.
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