The Ultimate Google Sheets Budget Template Tutorial for Beginners!

If you’re looking for a quick and easy budgeting tool, the Google Sheets budget template is a great option to track your daily expenses. For the past five years, I've used this free budgeting spreadsheet to keep my spending under control. This video walks you step-by-step through the process of creating a budget with Google Sheets, including my best tips to customize the template.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction to Google Sheets Budgeting Tutorial
0:20 Locate and Open the Google Sheets Monthly Budget Template
0:38 Start With a Clean Slate
2:52 Customize a Sample Monthly Budget
7:16 Make a Copy of the Sample Budget and Plan Your Spending
8:31 Track Your Expenses Throughout the Month

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FOLLOW MICHAEL SAVES:

[RM-]

You saved my life with this one. Thanks a lot!!!!

[barbarabrasted-maki]

This is amazing! I came to YouTube searching for tutorials because I looked at the Google budgeting spreadsheets and had no idea how to even get started with them. I am so glad I found this video - I'm all set up and ready for the month. Thank you!!!

[barryculbertson]

Really excellent video. My wife and I toggled back and forth between your video and our budget in google sheets. Thansk for doing this. Very much appreciated

[lisagibton]

This video is awesome! I have been putting off budgeting for a long time because I was always intimidated by the process - but you've made everything so clear and straightforward with the template! Thank you so much, Michael!

[robertobarrientos]

I'm up and running in 10 minutes. That's pretty awesome, Michael Saves!

[hannahmeads]

Thank You! This was exactly what I needed to simplify our budget. I am not comfortable with this type of thing but your video was perfect! Great explanation and detail without unnecessary talking.

[anapaulacota]

So much info in a relatively short video. Thank you! For someone who has always experienced a mental block with spreadsheets, this video made me excited about befriending the essential tool. Thank you!!

[amirbayat]

Man! You are awesome! I was miserable with how I was tracking my expenses. Belive it or not, in a .txt file LOL.
This is so great. Thank you for a hundred times.

[TheDreamCity]

This is literally GOLD.
Thanks, man.

[infinitlov]

Thank you very much!! I'm looking forward to starting 2024 with a vision and a plan to follow in order to stop procrastinating and finally achieve my goals!

[mamanabela]

Thank you so so much for this Michael! I've been looking for something like this for years now! Thankyou!

[jaysg]

Thank you for this clear and simple explanation of how to track money and budgeting. As most of them have stated I also had trouble using mobile apps to keep track of my money and cannot get a clear overview. Thank you again for explaining this clearly I am yet to try this out and it seems it's very simple with also having the ability to record with the phone which I did not know much about until you explained. Seems everything can be recorded and transferred to other sheets automatically.
Great work! Thanks a lot for taking your time to explain this to us

[wheinemail]

So many of these budget programs are way more complicated than I need. This is perfect. Thank you for spending the time in making this tutorial!

[nayamo]

This made me understand so much better I was lost but now im super excited to start budgeting.

[gracedevalois]

This was so helpful! Thanks for walking through everything step by step!

[Msfooter]

Awesome video. I was intimidated by budgeting because I was unsure how to go about it but this has been a tremendous help. I downloaded the app and this has been an excellent tool to have and has not only simplified my budget but made it easy to stick to it.

[MushyMammoth]

Dude- This was so incredibly helpful! Thank you so very much! I have literally never budgeted before so thank you so so so much! Give yourself a raise my friend!

[blurrylights]

This was outstanding. I recently retired because where I worked for 30 years closed. I am not old enough to collect social security and am living on savings, which I will have to be extra careful with to make it last for the next few years. This is a huge help, and I've downloaded the mobile app, too. Thank you so much.

[glennkrieger]

Clear, Concise and to the point. Great job. I installed the app, so easy to load transactions as they happen. Yahoo!!

[modupesalu]

Great video and explanation Michael! Thank you!!