My Wallet/Budget Setup in my Small Kikki-K Planner

 

Sections

I only have 3 dividers in my wallet, I made my own top tabbed dividers and used a label maker to stick onto the tabs. The sections I have are “To Buy”, “Notes”, & “Budget”.

• To Buy
• This is where I write my shopping list. I have it organized it by store so that when I am at that store I can just flip to that page and see what I needed or wanted from there. I also have some blank general lists for things that aren’t in any one particular store.
• The stores I have listed in my planner are 
• Target/Walmart
• Arts and Crafts Stores
• Grocery Stores
• Amazon
• Online Shops
• Mall 

• Notes
• Here I just have inspirational pictures of clothes, makeup and organizing things that I like. So whenever I am out shopping I can see what I would like.

• Budget
• In my budget section I have my paycheck budgeting printable, a daily expense printable, a bill pay checklist, and weekly pages. 
• New Category Expenses Printable

   

• I budget using this color coding scheme
• Kids (green) – purchases related to my children, (e.g., diapers, wipes, toys)
• House (orange) – household purchases, and things we absolutely need (e.g.,  cleaning products, paper towels, gas)
• Food (yellow) – food purchases, including dining out, fast food and groceries
• Personal/Fun (pink) – any purchases that are for fun, going out, things that I want.

• and I write in the details (the store name, the amount I spent, and a short description of what I bought) of it day by day in my weekly view pages

• At the end of the two weeks I go back and look at all my expenses and fill out the actual amounts in the paycheck budgeting sheet to see how much we spent for that pay period. 
• The color coding really helps for me to see where and what I am spending most of my money on. My weeks have been mostly pink and yellow, haha!

Cards

In the middle of the planner after “Notes”, I have all of my rewards cards.

I made them using this tutorial here: how to DIY your own card holders
I love having this because when I am at the store I can actually see all of my rewards cards and it’s so much easier to find! I put two cards in each sleeve with the front facing out.

Inside the Pockets

In the front pockets I have my main cards:

• My Driver’s License
• My Debit Card
• and My Target Red Card 
• occasionally I place my “going to use” rewards card fir easy (sephora’s as seen below)
• I also have the small petco rewards card there because it was too tiny to place in a sleeve.

In the back secretarial pocket I keep my color coding stickers that I use for my budgeting. Everytime I have an expense I write it on these stickers, using the color code, and stick it on that day in the weekly pages.

In Back

In the back of my planner I use the notepad to jot down any notes I have to write quickly.

I also have envelopes that I bought from the dollar section in Target that I use as coupon holders. Read more about this and how to make it here!

I have the following sections:

• Arts & Crafts
• Target
• Household
• Fashion
• Food
• Kids

I labeled them by using washi tape, then just hole punched them into my planner, it fits perfectly!
I
have them organized by store or category. For example, if I have diaper
coupons they would go into the “Kids” envelope. Or if I had some clorox or
dish soap coupons they would go into “household”.  I keep these in the
back since it is a little bit bigger than regular pages.

Folder

In the back, I have a note card that was also from the dollar section at Target. I just placed washi tape on it and wrote “Receipts”.  I just place my important receipts in there, it’s like a cute little folder!

I hope this helped you in some way in setting up your own budget/wallet/planner!

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