Sorry just need to vent. My wife and I share the responsibility of handling the finances, and we have one checkbook. I try and keep it balanced, rounding all amounts up, to make the math easier, and to tuck a little money away without realizing it. We do the same thing backwards with our paychecks. Usually amounts to about $150.00 a month saved, we never see. The big negative to this is, I cannot properly balance my checkbook, to see what I actually have extra. We never don't have transactions pending, and we don't write in the actually amounts. Well, we are going to change that, and here's why. I got the checkbook from my wife Saturday am, after not having it, for the last week. My wife had written in all her transactions, just like always. I open up the register, and starting doing the math, and I was shocked how well off we were a week from payday. I was proud of my wife for doing so well. So to celebrate, we finally broke down, and bought a new stove. Nothing fancy about $475.00 real simple gas range. Our electric one was about 35 years old, and only had one burner that worked and the oven didn't at all. Got home, and was looking over the checkbook, thinking, "well the next week will be a little tight, but that's ok, because we've done so so well." And then my jaw dropped. My wife had taken an entire page of transactions, and tucked them into the little flap on the register. We only do that, after we've balanced a page, and I hadn't accounted for it. $574.00 worth of transactions. We are pretty well screwed. Called sears and they won't take the range back. I can't be certain but I think we have enough extra to cover the extra transactions I hadn't figured in, but not the range. Something will have to give. Just when I thought we were getting some traction. Sorry had to vent. 
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