<prompt> Human: The purpose of this post isnt to give advice on how to save a large emergency fund. I was able to do it simply because Ive been lucky enough to have a decent salary so far. I do not consider myself particularly thriftyfrugal.Instead, I just wanted to give my personal anecdote about how much better I feel about a potential layoff because of: 1 the emergency fund Ive forced myself to maintain and 2 the amount of time and effort Ive dedicated to building a detailed forecast that can be re-forecast easily. Because of this time and effort, Ive taken a lot of uncertainty out of the question: how long will my emergency fund last?Here are some screenshots of my Excel forecasts Summary Chart dollars redacted but the bottom line 0 assuming:1. Continued employment: 2. A layoff tomorrow: I was able to create scenario 2 by simply deleting my salary and replacing it with expected unemployment benefits and adding estimated costs of COBRA.I didnt do it yet, but I know I could make further adjustments for cutting cablecell phones, selling my car, buying cheaper groceries, etc. While a layoff will still really suck, I at least know I should be able to comfortably make it until next summer without changing any of my spendingsavings habits.For those interested, my Excel budget consists of:1. a tab tracking historical liquidnon-retirement monetary assets every half-month2. a tab tracking future incomeexpenses by half-month including the regulars like my and spouses income, bills, gas, groceries, gifts, dog food, doctors appointments, etc as well as the unusual items like bonuses, tuition payments, etc.I also maintain a tab tracking historical accuracy and true up my future estimates from time to time. Edit: It seems there is at least moderate interest in me sharing this Excel workbook. Its too large for Google Sheets. It probably wont happen today, but if I do have a chance to share it, does anyone have a good way I can share an Excel spreadsheet Im thinking dropbox? Also, is there a good way to clear any metadata attached to the file? Id like to remove personally identifiable information from the workbook.Assistant: Wow, what app is this?Human: Its just an Excel spreadsheet in Windows. Ive invested well over 200 hours developing it and fine-tuning it since I started using it in late 2010 its got a lot more features than whats shown in the images such as tracking retirement contributions versus limits, loan amortization, tax return projections, highlighting spend data versus budget by category, projecting inflation, future tax rates, retirement income, net worth.Now I spend about 1 hour once every 2 weeks inputting data.If I feel there is enough interest, Ill attempt to de-personalize it and share it with Reddit.  <response>: Yes please! 