I never enjoyed keeping track of our expenses in the register that comes with your box of checks. It’s too small for me. Besides that, my husband usually had a book of check with him and I had one too. We had too much to keep track of!
We ditched the little ones. The kids have fun playing with them. We make copies of a full size check register. Ours came from Larry Burkette’s Financial workbook but there are several online. We keep the register in a 3-ring binder. It’s simple too keep up with because we have duplicate checks and we can just record what was spent on bill paying day. There is plenty of room to write and you can see it better. The front of the binder has a clear pocket and we keep an ongoing list of all of our important passwords and log-in information since we pay most of our bills online now.
Another good idea is to designate a place for all of your receipts. We don’t write many checks anymore, we use our debit cards. Having place to empty our wallets of receipts has been great for us.
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