Free, from the show

The sheet from the episode. Yours, free.

The Thousand Planner is the sheet you watched fill in on screen, row for row. Income at the top, every bill, the card, and the line at the bottom that says what's left. Google Sheets or Excel. About five minutes to fill in your first month.

Download the Planner (Excel)

Setup: the Google Sheets copy link is not set yet. Put it in plannerSheetsUrl in site/config.js.

Free, no email needed. Works in Excel and Google Sheets (File > Import).

How to start: the first five minutes

Open the This month tab. The Month box says 1.
Type your take-home pay into Income: what lands in your account.
Fill in every bill, one per row. Rename a row if yours is different.
Read the bottom line. Green says Left over. Mustard says Short.

Want the next episode's sheet by email? Coming soon.

The Thousand A Month host, a cartoon guy in a black cap and an olive jacket, pointing at the Planner — Month 1 from the Planner's Example tab: the story's numbers from episode 1. Your copy opens blank.

The Thousand Planner, Month 1, with the numbers from episode 1
The Thousand Planner	Month 1
Income	$1,000
Rent	$525
Groceries	$180
Gas	$70
Car insurance	$110
Phone	$35
Card minimum	$45
Fun	empty
Car fund	empty
Everything else	empty
Spending	$965
Left over	$35

Six tabs. Here's what each one does.

This month
Your income at the top, every bill under it, and one line at the bottom: Left over in green, or Short in mustard. It opens blank at Month 1, like the start of the episode.
24 months
Two years side by side, the same rows, with running totals and a month counter that moves on as you fill it in.
Card payoff
Your balance, your rate, your payment. It shows how many months to zero and what the interest adds up to, next to what paying only the minimum would cost.
Savings
A safety net and a car fund side by side: the goal, what you put in each month, and the month you get there.
Example and Start here
The story's own numbers from episode 1, so you can see a filled-in month, and a one-page how-to.

How it works

Download the file.
One .xlsx file, free, straight from this page. No email, no card.
Open it.
In Excel, click Enable Editing at the top or the shaded cells look empty. In Google Sheets, use File > Import > Upload and pick the file.
Fill in This month.
Income first, then every bill. The bottom line does the math.

Why it looks like this

Thousand A Month tells one person's money life at a time, starting on $1,000 a month. Every dollar is on screen and every rule is sourced. The sheet in the stories is this sheet. Same rows, same order, same colors: green for money in and progress, mustard for interest and short months. No red anywhere.

Money in, progress
Interest, short months

It's not an app.

Nothing connects to your bank, and nothing you type leaves your copy of the sheet.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. Click the button and the file downloads. No email, no card, no trial.

Google Sheets or Excel?

Both. It's an .xlsx file: open it in Excel, or in Google Sheets with File > Import > Upload.

Will you email me?

No. There's no signup, so we don't have your address. Getting the next episode's sheet by email is coming soon, and it will be opt-in.

Is this financial advice?

No. The Planner does arithmetic on numbers you type in. The money facts in the show are general information, not financial advice.

Start at Month 1.

The sheet opens blank, the same way the episode does.