- Item
- Allowance day
- Content
- Every Saturday
- Decided
- Unchecked
TemplatesFamily & home · Allowance log
Kids' allowance and savings
When you set allowance rules with your child and log money received, spent and saved while saving toward a goal
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Kids' allowance and savings
- Record keeper
- Not set
- Weekly allowance
- Not set
- Savings goal
- Not set
- Target date
- Not set
Set up the allowance rules table with your child, then delete the example line in the log and add your own.
Allowance rules
Decide these together with your child. If anything changes, update this first.
| Item | Content | DecidedCheckbox |
|---|---|---|
| Allowance day | Every Saturday | Unchecked |
| Base allowance | Weekly allowance in Document info | Unchecked |
| Ways to earn more | Helping with chores | Unchecked |
| Savings rate | 30% of money received | Unchecked |
- Item
- Base allowance
- Content
- Weekly allowance in Document info
- Decided
- Unchecked
- Item
- Ways to earn more
- Content
- Helping with chores
- Decided
- Unchecked
- Item
- Savings rate
- Content
- 30% of money received
- Decided
- Unchecked
Money in and out
One line each time you receive, spend or save money. Delete the example line before you use it.
Money in and out
| Content | Date | Category | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Example) This week's allowance | Not set | Received | Not set | This is an example line. Delete it and write your own. |
- Date
- Not set
- Category
- Received
- Amount
- Not set
- Notes
- This is an example line. Delete it and write your own.
Savings goal
| Goal | Target amountNumber | Saved so farNumber | AchievedCheckbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wishlist | Empty | 0 | Unchecked |
| Emergency fund | Empty | 0 | Unchecked |
- Goal
- Wishlist
- Target amount
- Empty
- Saved so far
- 0
- Achieved
- Unchecked
- Goal
- Emergency fund
- Target amount
- Empty
- Saved so far
- 0
- Achieved
- Unchecked
Things to talk about together
Look over the log together once a month.
Before a big purchase, think it over for a day.
Set the allowance rules together with our child.
Deleted the example line in the log.
Wrote down the savings goal.