My Crazy Checkbook!

I have been so tired lately and haven't found ANY time to do the things I enjoy like watch my prerecorded TV, read my books, people-watch while having brunch, and balancing my checkbook.

I use to balance my checkbook daily and past few weeks, I did it every other day or even every 3 days. And boy, oh boy, that really screwed me up. I believe the reason why I balance it every day is because if I didn't, I would lose my receipts.. So became the habit of me being obsessed over my checking account reconciliation.

This weekend, I decided to see if my total matched up the available balance on my checking account. And usually when I do this, it's correct. But this time, the numbers DID NOT ADD UP!!! It was off by $13 and I was going to find out why. I went back months and months and months, chewed on my pen, yanked my hair out, became one with all my past monthly statements, and still I could NOT FIGURE IT OUT. I was so angry. I ended up ripping out last month's transactions in my balancing checkbook notebook and started all over.

Do you know how long it takes to write out each and every transaction over? It took about one hour and afterwards, my poor wrist.. it was in pain. So after stressing over my checkbook for 3 hours, it is correct and up-to-date. I can breathe much easier now.

So moral of the week, RECONCILE EVERY DAY THERE'S A REASON WHY YOU DO THIS. DO IT EVEN IF YOU'RE TIRED (you'll save yourself one stressful weekend)

And seriously I was stressed out because of it..