Our Finances

I sat down last weekend to work out our finances to show my wife how much she was spending. I mapped out the increased spending versus the dwindling savings account balance, and I put it all in a pretty pie chart to emphasize my point.

I brought her in and explained what the fat and barely noticeable sections on the chart meant. With a smirk of triumph, because how could she argue with that, I looked over at her and asked her, “What do you have to say to that?”

She paused a moment and then pointed at the barely noticeable section that represented the bank account. She asked, “So, you’re saying that we have money left in the bank account to go shopping with?”