My pulse is racing and my stomach burning. Bad burrito? No. Mint.
I took M's advice and plunged right in. I'd been using a simple and thorough excel file provided by Z - Master Of All Things Finance - but if I didn't feel like adding an expense here or there, I didn't. Vices? I have none; at least not on my excel sheet. Shoe purchases got nicely wrapped up in groceries. Take that, financial responsibility.
Mint is a high magnifying mirror. You know the kind - they're round and usually at the end of a bendy elbow hinge attached to a hotel bathroom wall. I try to avoid them for fear of seeing what my t-zone really looks like.
Well, forget that. As soon as I attached my accounts to Mint, there was no running away. $90/month at Starbucks! Previously hidden on both my debit card and AmEx, it didn't seem so bad. An average of $200/month on clothes since August. Dang, girl! And lots of other embarrassing trends that I don't want to talk about yet.
Good-bye, binge spending. Hello, self-control.
Yesterday: $6.02 - burrito
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Buy a used espresso machine on CL, and get your coffee at home, machine will pay for itself in a few months (or a few years if you get one like mine)
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