Deciding to give up
7 April 2025 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI am still plugging away through my very overdue accounts from last year and have now completed nine months -- but for the last two months I have been working on, the recorded cash expenditure has quite definitely exceeded the amount of cash withdrawn from my account (by a few pounds at a time), and at this lapse of time I have absolutely no means of working out where the extra money to fund this spending can have come from -- I have had to simply give up on attempting to balance my accounts for the period in question. Either I received cash from some source *in addition* to the amounts I wrote down (and I do normally try to write down all sums received and spent, down to ten pence picked up on the street or 60p spent on a library resrvation), or else my cash-in-hand calculations went wrong at some point between July, when I last counted up the coins in my possession, and October, when I started visibly outspending my income.
My next cash-in-hand record was in January, so I shall just have to restart from there; any month in which the amount of money in my household purse is calculated as being a pound or two in the negative is obviously erroneous! I have no means of double-checking the amounts in my cash notebook, since it only serves to record transactions for which I don't receive a receipt, and thus any mistakes in there are untraceable, at least after a lapse of six months or so...
I have also made the decision to give up on my pot of parsley, which has never been healthy enough to actually use in cooking and which is just dwindling year on year. Even the 'new' parsley has all died, one plant at a time, and the much bigger 'old' parsley proved, when I finally pulled it up, to have virtually no root on it. It clearly just doesn't like the growing conditions.
And I have ripped a pair of pyjama trousers very convincingly across the seat -- there is no point on earth in trying to mend those. As it happens I have rather more (non-matching) pyjama trousers than jackets, since to my perplexity it was the jackets that kept ripping... so at least this evens things up a bit :-)
My next cash-in-hand record was in January, so I shall just have to restart from there; any month in which the amount of money in my household purse is calculated as being a pound or two in the negative is obviously erroneous! I have no means of double-checking the amounts in my cash notebook, since it only serves to record transactions for which I don't receive a receipt, and thus any mistakes in there are untraceable, at least after a lapse of six months or so...
I have also made the decision to give up on my pot of parsley, which has never been healthy enough to actually use in cooking and which is just dwindling year on year. Even the 'new' parsley has all died, one plant at a time, and the much bigger 'old' parsley proved, when I finally pulled it up, to have virtually no root on it. It clearly just doesn't like the growing conditions.
And I have ripped a pair of pyjama trousers very convincingly across the seat -- there is no point on earth in trying to mend those. As it happens I have rather more (non-matching) pyjama trousers than jackets, since to my perplexity it was the jackets that kept ripping... so at least this evens things up a bit :-)