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SwiftyDC posted...

If you set it up right excel does almost all the counting for you. But I get what you mean. I try to enter my expenses once a week, but sometimes I dont feel like doing it til the end of the month and that turns out to be time consuming.

yeah, it's the actual transfer of purchases from my credit card statement into excel that's a pain. i still keep track of macro total expenses

Moonroof posted...

Do you manage your expenses because otherwise youd risk falling behind? Or is it just habit at this point? I feel like I would keep track if I was on the verge of falling behind.

i also don't like to worry about money in the moment. i like looking backwards and seeing mistakes, then coming up with rules/heuristics that are easy to adhere to

regardless of whether you're ahead or behind, waste is waste. it can also be a wakeup call to some boiling frog scenarios. at one point, i was ordering seamless once a month, then it became once a week, then it became two, three+ times a week and actually seeing the food expense go up month-by-month was motivational to stop being so lazy.

seeing exactly how much i was spending on alcohol helped motivate me to drink less. seeing that i was actually spending less when living farther away and taking an expensive train four times a week made me feel better about a situation. knowledge is power, blah blah blah

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