different point of view
Feb. 8th, 2008 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowGAH!!
the biggest trouble with writing down everything you spend is that at some point you have to tabulate it and attempt to make some sense of it.
the biggest pain in the butt about writing down everything you eat is that you have to write down everything you eat, and for all that it takes only minutes of the day, it is still a pain. plus, it is kind of embarrassing, or it entails lying to myself which is just too stupid to contemplate.
The theory is that writing down what I spend makes me more aware of it and I spend less. The theory is that writing down what I eat is that I pay attention to it and I eat less, and healthier, (and lose weight, and it should cost less)
The question at the end of my day is... does this work? and what do I do with the little cute notebooks full of scribbled dates and numbers that tell me what I bought?
the biggest trouble with writing down everything you spend is that at some point you have to tabulate it and attempt to make some sense of it.
the biggest pain in the butt about writing down everything you eat is that you have to write down everything you eat, and for all that it takes only minutes of the day, it is still a pain. plus, it is kind of embarrassing, or it entails lying to myself which is just too stupid to contemplate.
The theory is that writing down what I spend makes me more aware of it and I spend less. The theory is that writing down what I eat is that I pay attention to it and I eat less, and healthier, (and lose weight, and it should cost less)
The question at the end of my day is... does this work? and what do I do with the little cute notebooks full of scribbled dates and numbers that tell me what I bought?