What Part of "Write It Down" Don't You Understand? Who Needs a Mesothelioma Lawyer?

Part Five: So in addition to my fancy dancy excel budget, I also designed a "tracker" spreadsheet. That was where we were to enter ALL of our purchases each day for the month. Seems simple right? Well, lets say that it turned out to be quite challenging, at least for one of us. Since I really don't buy anything other than gas and beer, I managed to keep up on it rather well. DW on the other hand not so well. She does all the grocery shopping and day to day things so I understood she might miss a few things, but it was often a few hundred dollars off each month for the first few months. Oh well, who's perfect? Anyway, after about three months of tracking every expense (ok, almost every expense) we had a real good idea of where everything went and it helped make an even more accurate budget each month. Three months is about all we could take of this tracker anyway, it has been retired ever since.   After that three month point, the envelope system also went bye bye. At least the credit cards were still in exile, safely collecting dust. Honey, I see a McDonald's cup in the garbage but it isn't written on the Tracker, what part of write it down don't you....