Not my forte…

by Heidi on April 28, 2008

Dearest Freaders,

I need your help. I know I already asked for it yesterday but forgive me for being needy. I’m looking to create a budget. Now, I’m not going to lay out all my financials on the internets, cause thats just not smart, and not to mention at the current time, it’s not a pretty sight either…so yeah.
So I’m trying to set up this budget thing… and well…I’m kind of struggling with the logistics of setting up a budget. Yeah sure I know, I got an A in “consumer math” senior year of high school…my move to get out of taking pre-calc. Learning to pay bills and make budgets…slacker math if you will. Though I’ve always been okay at Algebra, I blame it on pure luck for having great teachers because me? I hate math. Also…that was seven years ago.

So now that I’m trying to get my credit card debt seriously taken care of and boyfriend is putting himself on the line to do so, I want a strict strict budget. Like…Down to Every Penny strict. At first thought, I wondered “well…What would Martha Do…” Clearly, I’ve been idolizing the girls at WeAreNotMartha who may or may not have convinced me that Martha has the solution for everything. I know, I Know, this is MORE than absurd. So I have the numbers out, but i want them to be…well…pretty. I want to be able to understand what this all means when I input numbers.

So I know I need an excel spread sheet, and thats about as far as I get. Clearly…I am incompetent at this crap.

Help? Anyone? Anyyone??

[insert cricket sounds]

First person to give me a good website gets a free dinner From me! Well…a home cooked dinner. I cooked up some great stuff this weekend…but I’ll post that stuff laters. (I’m kidding about the home cooked dinner unless you live in the greater DC area.)