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Money shouldn't be this hard
Dec. 16th, 2019 09:30 pmI'm not sure what it is but recording money stuff goes well for a while, then it just...falls by the wayside. Inevitably this leads to an error that either overdraws my account (thank goodness for a credit union that doesn't charge me the first time that happens) and then I "need to catch up". And catching up on a month or more worth of missed quicken entries is a nightmare.
I know in my head that if I just do it once a week it's easy. Somehow that just doesn't seem to consistently translate to doing the thing.
Now I have 94 emails in my unread inbox, and 91 of them are receipts for orders that haven't been recorded in my Quicken file yet.
I'm not sure why I *can* be great with money; I have been in the past good enough at it to have a rep for being able to stretch a budget within an inch of its life, but somehow I just...don't now.
This is a thing to work on with a lot more focus in the coming year. I suspect that I could "downsize my stress" quite a bit if I can put effort into getting back to the place I KNOW I can be if I just can get back into the frugal penny-squeezer habit that I had when I was married and our money was shared and scarce.
I know in my head that if I just do it once a week it's easy. Somehow that just doesn't seem to consistently translate to doing the thing.
Now I have 94 emails in my unread inbox, and 91 of them are receipts for orders that haven't been recorded in my Quicken file yet.
I'm not sure why I *can* be great with money; I have been in the past good enough at it to have a rep for being able to stretch a budget within an inch of its life, but somehow I just...don't now.
This is a thing to work on with a lot more focus in the coming year. I suspect that I could "downsize my stress" quite a bit if I can put effort into getting back to the place I KNOW I can be if I just can get back into the frugal penny-squeezer habit that I had when I was married and our money was shared and scarce.
