Took me 6 weeks to figure out why my grocery budget kept blowing up by $80 every month
I was tracking every receipt in a spreadsheet for 6 weeks and could not figure out where the extra $80 was going, so I started sorting my spending by store instead of by category and found it all came from quick trips to the gas station near my apartment in Sacramento. Those stops were $6 here and $9 there for snacks and drinks, and since they were under $10 each I just never flagged them as real spending. Does anyone else sort by store instead of category to catch the small stuff?