As has been the case recently, I fish for something to scan for Sundays' entries. I assure you this is only because I'm too tired to say much of import after a 7-hour teaching day.One thing I've discovered about myself is that I save far too much junk. I save things I'll never need. For example, I located my expenditures from August of 1989. I am not sure that this is a positive. It totally flies in the face of my view I'm so come as one may. Rather, it makes me seem a little, you know, .... retentive.
Before blogging, I never really managed to keep a journal. Yet, I used to keep a spreadsheet of monthly expenses well before I bought my first copy of 'MS Money'. If you click on the thumbnail, you'll load a .pdf file of expenses during August 1989. I was in Bahrain at the time. The columns of figures are Bahraini Dinars, US Dollars, and Sri Lankan Rupees, respectively. I spent less than $350 a month? No wonder why I am rich today.
I wonder if the categories and my percentages have changed after 16 years. Well, surely there's one difference: I quit smoking five or six years ago.