I've extolled the virtues of keeping a spending diary since I started blogging and yet fail to keep my own up to date!
My own spending diary is a simple excel sheet that I can update daily/weekly to track my spending; it takes two minutes to do, so there really is no excuse.
To try and combat this laziness I'm committing to posting a monthly 'spending diary report' on this blog; I'll post it in the first week of every month and you'll be able to see where my money is going - in fact I'll be able to see that too!
^This is an example of my monthly round up excel sheet that I'll be posting every month; this is simple to do yourself if you want to join me.
Are you good at this, do you record your spending every month without fail?
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I actually recieved a budgeting tool from 27&Frugal similar to this which I used religiously from Feburary to March. Although I am more of a paycheck budgeter, it would probably be nice to see how much in each category I spend montly again. :)
ReplyDeleteI already do a spreadsheet although I draw it up by hand as I don,t have Microsoft Office on my PC. I love that I know exactly where my money goes, although it still manages to go LOL
ReplyDeleteEvery. Single. Month.
ReplyDeleteI post everything I can, even though it's kind of hard to split out personal and business expenses as it is just me living and eating but logged differently :\
Other than that.... :)
I just love seeing my spending analysis and numbers. It makes me sit up and take notice.
FB: you're my role model when it comes to keeping a diary of spending :-)
ReplyDeleteMaureen: my husband uses a pen and paper, he prefers it :-)
ReplyDeleteSerendipity: It certainly deters me from spending if I can see where I'm going over in the categories, especially grocery.
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