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Warning: my old paper budget book from 2011 beats my spreadsheet app in one way
Cleaning out a closet in my apartment last Saturday, I found the little spiral notebook I used for money back in 2011, and flipping through it hit me weird. Back then I wrote every purchase by hand, even a $2.50 coffee, and I had to sit there and do the math myself to know if rent was covered. I counted it up and there were 14 months of pages in there with maybe 3 mistakes total, and I think the slow writing is the whole reason it worked. My phone app now is faster but I swipe and forget, so the notebook actually kept me more honest. Anyone here still write it out on paper, or did you find an app that makes you slow down?
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morgan.jason28d ago
That line about sitting there doing the math yourself really hits, I read somewhere that writing stuff down by hand makes your brain actually process it instead of just swiping past. My bank app shows me the numbers but I never really look at them, so you might be onto something.
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