Monday, April 6, 2009

Feeling Sheepish

Yes, that is me. How could this happen you may ask? Well, I decided that I should balance my checkbook. A new concept since apparently I stopped doing it...last September. Ouch! There must have been something traumatic happening because Josh stopped doing expenses too. Oh, wait, Baby Rome. Yea, now I remember. Everything revolved around the 3 month old baby and how many hours of sleep I could squeeze out of a night. How could I have forgotten to do something as important as balance my check book? It is such a FUN thing to do. Anyway, I decided it was finally time to stop avoiding the hugenormous pile of receipts in my purse and get out the checkbook. (As it turns out I have a whole other half in my purse that used to be full of receipts. Now I can put all kinds of things in there!) I first had to sort the receipts by month because I forgot which side I was going from so they were pretty well mixed. Then, I had to dig out the statements to balance. After that it was pretty easy. I love it when they balance to the penny! Except for the fact that the payments kept going up and up and UP! Man, what is going on? I guess that happens when you stop balancing and keep spending. Pooh. I liked that feeling of ignorance that everything is fine and money grows on trees. What, where did that come from? I kinda knew I needed to watch what I was spending, but I didn't want to try real hard yet. Oh, well. Back to real life. It was a nice 7 month vacation. Now, back to my budget. I stink at budgets. Or, maybe I can find that money tree...

3 comments:

Autumn said...

Ha ha, if you find a money tree I hope you'll share :)

Lacey said...

Ha ha...I don't even balance my checkbook...lol. I just look at my statements online and call it good...so yeah for you!

Jana said...

Wow, I haven't a balanced a checkbook in years, but that's because we do everything online and it keeps track of it for us. It might be better to do it ourselves as we go along, but for the most part that works for us!