Addiction, Dependence, and Functional. – Personal Definitions that are Needed.

My cousin explained to me Dependence (which has a different meaning as in Wikipedia) as something we need to be “Functional”. Addition being something like an obsessions that destroys everything around it – its “an obsession” that causes dysfunction.

Its an important distinction in my personal expense report – as Coffee is a Dependence. In my personal time management – chinese studies, my daily exercise routine, and my pocket notebook is a

How I define the following:

Functional. it’s able to perform my duties and responsibilities. Over the course and measurement of experience and documentation, functional are the factor of conditions that need to be met to allow me to perform my duties and responsibilities.

Dependence. These are the things that I need (different from basic needs) that allows me to be functional.

Addiction. This is an obsession or attraction that causes me to be dysfunctional when pursued.

Personal Expense Sheet

Named Ranges. Using this a lot. Example september2017categories (a column of categories of expenses), september2017costs. Most importantly its my categories Categoriesv2 is the range for Data Validation for my Categories Column.

Source. It was originally Location or where I bought something. But it quickly evolved into the store I buy the most from. It brings to light some common sense

Losing Stuff. I lose pens and they break. I go through notebooks. If I want to know how much I lose over a period of time I should do a period inventory from month to month. Number of Pens Balance, to the Number of Pens at the end of a period.

Sumif. With Named Ranges sumif is used to analyze costs per category. I’ve put 3 rows for KPIs. So I’m more aware of the costs.

Categories Version 2. I plan to use find and replace to update the old Category versions to the updated ones.

Quarter Consolidation. This should be my periodic Data dive of analyzing all my expenses moving forward. It seems to take a couple of hours, hopefully the additional help in the house I’ll have time to really do a deep dive.

Expense Tracking Plans

Anual KPI tracking. looking at “annual” average. I need to have a methodology to how much it has to change

Cost Benefit Analysis.

While I am aware of my spending, there is no replacing having documentation to really analyze what I really spent on and what my reasoning is. Moving forward there are costs I can manage better, and some costs I can’t help but spend on because it improves our welfare in the house.

Cooking and Storage. Kitchen Equipment and Storage seems to have one of the best impact in costs. FOOD applies to health and happiness, its one of the costs I need to control better. I may need to create seperate category for Kitchen from my general Tools/Equipment category.
Home Care. House costs is one of those things where Spending on Improving the house means Travelling less (hopefully). If the house is more… a better home, then caring for it would be empowering as well as enlightening. I do have home care gdoc and I hope my son and daughter would adopt it so that they can have Care (maintenance) as a key feature in their upbringing.

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