Mid 2009, I started tracking expenses via a ledger we bought at Walmart. I was trying to identify areas that we were overspending, as well as tabulating how much we were spending in each category so that I could properly create a budget template going forward. This process was much to manual, so I had a tendency to "forget" to do it. I hated printing out the statement each month, highlighting the various categories and then meticiulously writing them (in pencil, of course) into the ledger. Why didn't I use Excel, you ask? I don't know. It never occurred to me.....until today.
I didn't feel like going anywhere for lunch, so I was balancing my checkbook at my desk during my lunchbreak. Some of the credit card payment amounts made me wonder where we were spending all our money, so I started recording January, February and March charges in a spreadsheet. Which made me wonder how much I was spending per category, so I created a pivot table. While the total amounts made it easy to see where the bulk of our money was going, I wanted something more visual. So I created a chart from my pivot table information. The result was this:
There is something so wrong with me, because I'm actually PROUD of this.
