Adopted my knitting group's method to track my business income

In my knitting group, we track yarn buys with a simple spreadsheet. I copied that for my company to record client payments. Seeing the numbers laid out helps me spot when money might be tight. This has saved me from surprise cash crunches.

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4 Comments

aaronw591mo ago

Try adding expense tracking to the same sheet.

the_tessa1mo ago

Mixing rent money with coffee receipts in one sheet sounds like a special kind of chaos, @aaronw59. Suddenly your cell bill is right next to that impulse buy for a fancy pen, and your whole budget feels like a sad joke. I tried that once and spent ten minutes just figuring out if my grocery total included my actual food or the streaming service I forgot about. No thanks, some messes deserve their own separate containers.

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margaretr761mo ago

Oh wonderful, @aaronw59. Adding expense tracking to that mess means your rent payment is now neighbors with your daily latte and your random Amazon purchase. You'll have a line for electricity right above your impulse buy of fancy socks. Then you spend ages wondering if that $12 charge was for lunch or a month of some app you never use. The whole thing turns into a puzzle where the pieces are all from different boxes. Honestly, it's like asking for a headache in spreadsheet form.

angelamurphy10d ago

Totally agree. It just makes you feel broke in more categories at once. Like your money is failing twice as hard.