Planning major financial events in advance helps ensure that when they occur, they don’t pile up too many expenses at once. For example, avoid taking on a car loan payment during a child’s college years, or keep a mortgage term from extending beyond a planned retirement date. This free visual financial timeline tool helps you map the sequence of these events to create an overall plan. Using a financial timeline is covered in “What Would Dad Do? Volume 1 - The Early Years.”

Requires the Excel, LibreOffice, or OpenOffice application. The spreadsheet-formatted files are provided at the download link emailed after checkout.