The Making of a Budget – Part 1 – Write Everything Down

Well I am a week into getting a budget together. This part involves just recording everything that you spend your money on. I started with a small notebook, but that was  impractical as I didn’t have it with me always. Instead, I created a memo entry on my BlackBerry and I keep track that way. Each day I enter more information starting with the date then underneath all of the expenses for that day. Something like this:
2/1
3 – bfst
10 – lunch
…
The hard part has been to actually write down the expense. It takes some getting used to write it down, but once you get a hang of it, it becomes almost automatic.
I will update this post with the first weeks numbers.