A journal JUST for tracking my money | Plan With Me - Finance/Cashflow Journal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- ... and I love the function of this journal, but I sort of hate the journal's cover 🤣
Let's take a look at the traveler's sized journal that's been helping me keep track of my dollars since I ditched the spending logs from my monthly bullet journal setups!
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00:00 About my cashflow journal
01:58 My existing monthly spending pages & how they work
08:08 Setting up some six month overview spreads - income, savings & spending category trackers
17:40 Setting up my July monthly spending pages
24:19 Cashflow journal
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I like the camper, but for a financial journal I love the coy idea. Manifesting wealth.
Ironing a patch on the cover should be fine so long as you keep the heat away from the spine. It might also be a good idea to apply weight on the journal afterwards (such as piling heavy books on top of it) for the duration it takes for the journal to fully cool down. That way nothing drastic should happen to it.
Thank you, this sounds like wonderful advice! 🥰
Love the coy fish with the cover.
When I set my monthly budget I separate the spending categories in separate columns instead of having a long list of spending.
I have my monthly payments in one section and separate sections for gasoline/petrol, groceries, medical, eating out and shopping. It makes it easier to calculate at the end of the month.
I've always had trouble budgeting... this setup makes sense for me and is super simple and quick! Love it. Also, I'm a HUGE fan of the travelers size anything this year lol
i've never used a patch on my linen journal from archer and olive. HOWEVER, i have used vinyl stickers on one before. It wasn't an everyday use journal (i used it on my reading journal), but they worked/are working out pretty well for me.
I would love to see these setups in the bujo setup videos! I always love seeing how you decorate your pages and how the decorations can sometimes make the same page/spread layout feel different. Also if you keep the decoration more minimal in the cashflow journal it would be nice to see for people who either can't or don't want to put lots of decorative stuff in their journal. And it might inspire someone to start tracking their own cashflow situation but hasn't seen your older setups.
I would love to see this set up with the regular bujo and definitely would love to see the wrap up. Such a great idea! Thanks!
Just watching this video for the second time to get some ideas for my personal finance tracker I want to start for the second half of 2024 :) This was quite helpful! Thank you for sharing your journal with us 💕
I have the same traveller’s journal and I did not know what to do with it. I do like the idea of having a separate finance journal even if I don’t have your problem of « blurring » for filming purposes. And a mid-year recap is a good way to have a better overview. Thanks for the video.
I use excel for my finances but I like the idea of the categories and tracking through the year. I could totally do that on the spreadshit so thanks for the inspiration. And your notebook is so cute and functional I love it. Also I would love to see your recap’
It’s such a handy tool, especially when it comes to being ready for bigger bills that roll around annually!
Love the way you have laid this out. It seems very simple and easy to use
Hi Erin, you can definitely at the koi to the cover. I noticed in one of your videos that you have a cricut. If you have a mini press you can use that. Or an iron. I've seen it done on youtube with notebooks. Just use like baking paper over the top of the koi stickers, to protect the stickers and the notebook, but keep the heat low and monitor it. I went to Daiso today like you suggested and bought some lovely origami paper and washi tape. I'm too nervous to write in my new Archer and Olive Journal though. My handwriting is terrible since I've been sick and I don't want to ruin it. How do I get over the initial starting of a journal. I'm going to use stamps for months and try and hide my handwriting by decorating too. Ahhh ... I don't know where to start. Your Journal is so lovely, I just want mine to look the same. Thanks for all your tips, I also got some washi tape and stickers from kmart. Juliet from Brissy. I would also love to have photos taken of my family when I am better Erin, do you do portrait photography as well?
Yes please to seeing the setups in the bujo videos, it's an idea how to use your main theme in a minimal way if that makes sense. I think you should be ok to iron a patch on the cover as long as you're careful. Missed seeing Mitsu in this video :)
Hi Erin, I hate to be that person but *please* if you want to keep information truly private from the internet, physically block it or black it out digitally rather than blurring it - blurring may look better on camera but if someone had ill intent they can quite easily un-blur the image to extract information.
What are they earn by doing that tho? How much she spends on a month? Its not credit card information it won t effect her life.
Thank you for sharing that. I didn't know that was possible.
I wasn’t aware of this! Thank you for caring about my digital safety ❤️
It’s true the dollar amounts and what the items were probably wouldn’t help a scammer much - it’s also stalkery types I’m worried about though, they’d be able to work out places I frequent pretty easily. It’s likely a bit paranoid but better to be safe, right? 😬
@@nafriddle9658 Exactly what Erin said above - working out her movement patterns is more of a risk than the quantities - e.g. if someone wanted to do her harm, knew her city and saw that she spent on groceries every other tuesday at x brand of store, they could very easily stalk each location of x until they found her. Most people wouldn't do it, wouldn't even *think* to do it, but the danger is there, especially (though not only) for women online.
this was a great video it inspired me to start a journal for tracking my finances!
I love how colourful everything in your journal is 🥰
I love the patches. I wonder if fabric glue would work better than heat.
I hadn’t thought of that! Definitely sounds safer than heat 😅
What's wrong with the camper van! 😅 I love that lil design.
He’s just not meeeeeee 🤣
Oooh I’ve been waiting for this video!!
Hi Erin, I like the koi patches. As a life long seamstress, I would glue them. If your iron is hot enough to activate the patch's glue, it might ruin the journal.
Thanks for sharing .
I'd love to see the monthly setup for the spending journal in the bujo setup! I love your spending tracker and use it for myself since the beginning of this year :D
I’m so glad you like my lil spending tracker Yasmin! 🥰
i like the koi being on there
Please add cash flow set up to monthly. I really enjoyed it.
I like having the computer do my math :P. i used to write down everything I bought so I could judge it later. was I happy I bought those shoes or did they turn out to be a waste
Definitely wise to stop if it’s a negative spiral!
Just stumbled across your channel and this video. You're extremely creative. Did you do a calligraphy course? I am from Sydney Australia. How long does it take you to set up each month? Do you track your expenses weekly or monthly?
To help with having to re-write your categories every month maybe number code them instead of writing the whole title.
That’s an idea! 💡
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I love this idea! I think I might just do it! Is that size just called travelers? Or is there an official size?
Yep, just ‘travellers’ - A&O have a section for them on their website (which is linked in the description). I haven’t seen many other brands offer them with 160GSM paper like the A&O journals but I think there are some out there, you may need to do some hunting! 🥰
@@ErinSmith will do!