bitful

Two days into my holiday my mobile phone reset itself and was wiped out.

I back up all my contacts daily with my desktop and online once a month, so information was not lost and easily retrievable away from home.

However, my notes on how much I had spent so far, on what, and how to split that with Dr B. was gone forever.

I had been thinking for a while that now that I am not a nineteen-year-old student any longer, I could perhaps become a little bit less obsessive about logging my expenses. And so I decided to enjoy the rest of the holiday and spend away.

Once I returned home I continued not to log any cash expenses, and I was particularly proud of this great achievement.

Until yesterday morning, when I overheard the woman behind me in the queue at Tescos muttering 'I don't fu**ing believe it!' under her breath when I paid for a banana and a tin of tuna with my debit card. And I realised that I was doing it because I knew that Nationwide sends automatically each transaction to Microsoft Money, and I have trained Money to tag each transaction coming from Tescos with 'Groceries'.

So, well, same disorder really, but now managed electronically online.

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