I'm starting to feel like the program I use to balance my accounts is judging me.
When I enter receipts at the end of the week, it's comparing every amount to the routine expenses I've set up in my budget.
When I enter a $36 trip to the grocery store, a little window pops up.
Is this your scheduled $150 weekly grocery expense? It dutifully asks.
Um... No, I click in answer. The little window closes, and I continue entering receipts.
I enter a mid-week $42 trip.
Is THIS your scheduled $150 weekly grocery expense?
It was just mouthwash and toilet paper! And things like coffee creamer and green beans. Okay, and the Oreos. But what was I supposed to do, not have any toilet paper until the end of the week?
No, I click.
Hhhhhhhh, says the window as it closes.
Each time I enter a grocery receipt, the window pops up again. Is this your scheduled expense? How about this one? This one?
Finally, I come to the budgeted expense. A $191.64 total, and I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself that it was under $200.
Yes! I click in answer to the anticipated question. This is it. My scheduled expense!
Another window pops up. Would you like to change your budgeted amount to $191.64? And you should know that I'm only asking because I've observed that you are an impulse-purchasing spendthrift who can't be bothered with sticking to a simple weekly budget.
Of course not, I click.
The program shakes it head silently in grim disapproval.
