Reconciling

when you take all of those recipts that you've been saving and tally them up for the mind-blowing total of money that you have put on your credit card since last month. Now, take that number, and you're staring at either the amount of money that is NO LONGER in your bank account, or the amount of money that you owe someone. Altogether a very unpleasant thing to do. What's the big deal about money anyways? Okay, so you work all week to get those pretty green papers, then add them to your big pink piggy bank (don't try to lie; we all know that you have one) that's staring tauntingly at you from the top of your dresser. After a few more weeks of working and stuffing things into Porky, you have enough money to buy that new version of Tetris (c'mon, you know you want it) So you get on your computer and go to that handy site that everyone knows, Ebay. There it is, that New Tetris game, all shrink-wrapped and everything, looking sexy in its box with the graphics on it.... but HOLY *insert expletive here* it is WAY overpriced! that Ebay user likes money, and you know what? you like Tetris, so you click that pretty Buy button calling your name and enter your credit card number while writing down the price on a scrap of paper. but guess what? a month later, time to reconcile again and OH DARN, you lost that little scrap and so your reconciling isn't accurate anyways! so guess what you do? you hire an accountant, and hand over the rest of your green papers so he can keep track of your green papers that build up on your credit card. so, here we are, back at the start, reconciling.