I assure you that you can’t “use your gut,” or tap your “spidey senses” when trying to accurately track your spending.The reason we have to do the “tedious” work of tracking our finances, is to glean the information we need from the results of this work.
What Kind of Information Do We Get From Personal Bookkeeping?
1) You actually know if you spent more money than you made in a given time period. This is what determines if you get to invest money for your future, or if your debt hole just got bigger.