2009 Resolution

January 7th, 2009
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Hey everybody! I am back in one piece from the Philippines, but I’ll be posting about it tomorrow. For today, I thought I’d just appraise you of my new year’s resolution for 2009. I will of course be pretending to follow my perennial resolution of “finally getting in shape,” but I thought that for morale’s sake, if not honesty’s, that I should have a backup. So while fitness is still in there, I wanted something that I could commit to doing, no excuses, that was a little bit flexible. So, my new year’s resolution is, drum roll please…

I will record every single financial transaction I make this year.

I’m inputting it into a spreadsheet for further analysis. I think that if I just accept receipts from everything I do here in Japan, and keep tabs on stuff overseas, I can do this. Without accounting for lost change and whatnot, I should be able to see where all of my money goes. And that could be a very good thing. Might help me carve out new savings possibilities by eliminating waste. It’ll be frustrating until I’ve gotten into the habit, I think, but I can do it. Now if only I could actually get fit.

What is your new year’s resolution?

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  • Mom - if you're really interested, I'm using the spreadsheet provided by Presh Talwalkar of Mind Your Decisions. But you should be filling out the (much simpler) spreadsheet I made for you last November... :-|
  • Mom
    Sounds like a good idea for me too, my son. : )
  • Aaron - wow...no way could I use that thing. Sick in an hour or two is more like it. Ha ha. I prefer the boring receipts into spreadsheet model of enforcing my goal.

    Alex - I can only try my hardest. So I will. And I'll restart as much as necessary to get me through to the end. The goal isn't perfection - it's a heightened awareness of the state of my personal finance, spending habits, and areas I can tweak for optimization.
  • "I will record every single financial transaction I make this year."

    I've tried it. A few times. It went great for about 3 weeks at the longest. I hope you have more perseverance in it than I did!

    My 2009 resolution is to become a more likable person. If I fail at that, I hope to at least become a more lickable person.

    <abbr>Alexs last blog post was: Kanji and why they aren’t always conventionally useful</abbr>
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    It's kind of a cute idea, but I know I'd get sick of it in a week or so.

    <abbr>Aarons last blog post was: Romanizing Japanese addresses</abbr>
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