I'm finally sitting down and creating our budget spreadsheet! We have already set our budget, but I want to keep tabs on it meticulously because we don't have that much to spend. Right now I'm simply creating a list in Excel of all the line items we need to budget for. I've created columns for the item, vendor, estimated cost, date due, actual cost, and date paid. Now I need to figure out how to use the formulas to total everything up. LOL. Any suggestions for creating a budget spreadsheet?