{"id":3080,"date":"2019-04-19T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/money\/?page_id=3080"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:44:38","slug":"budget-brainstorm-tool","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/budget-brainstorm-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Builder Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t quite know how to start making your budget, a good place to start is with our Budget Builder Tool.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, go through the entire list and place a check mark next to each expense you have.<\/li>\n<li>Then, go back through your list and determine how much you spend each month for the items you checked (you may have to look at your bank or credit card statements).<\/li>\n<li>Once this is complete, use one of our budget templates (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1x_6tntMJRXuFAENUggOghRN53t2BhysHtJN_R6GJf7I\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monthly budget<\/a>&nbsp;or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/14sfVKmvESVNRaVL3I5UcT2IY6E3Uraddr3rKu999fFU\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">semester budget<\/a>) to create your budget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Rv9AH1jkjyLMy8xVhgMH60LsSeYcMCtiPlcFtE2eHvg\/edit\">Budget Builder Tool (Option 1)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1tHmBif7ROnYMAO4hIorMl7E4tOaEY_tHIyR95BmNthA\/edit?usp=sharing\">Budget Builder (Option 2)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t quite know how to start making your budget, a good place to start is with our Budget Builder Tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3080","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7280,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3080\/revisions\/7280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}