Things youve made a spreadsheet about

Bank accounts, track all my money, every day, to the penny.

I started this in the mid 1980s, when I was significantly poorer than I am now. I am utterly convinced this guided me to better money management and now to being quite comfortably placed.

It is such a routine, that I couldn’t stop if I wanted to.

I've been doing this the past maybe 10 years, but stopped this year, and now I'm skint, so I think I need to resurrect it.
 
Bank accounts, track all my money, every day, to the penny.

I started this in the mid 1980s, when I was significantly poorer than I am now. I am utterly convinced this guided me to better money management and now to being quite comfortably placed.

It is such a routine, that I couldn’t stop if I wanted to.
This is my main personal use fir excel. Keeping track of incoming, outgoings. Means I know what I can afford and that I religiously save.
 
Although I cut my teeth on Lotus 123 and detest all thing Microsoft, I will admit to having been a fan of Excel in my time. Cinema few:

Loads for school - exam results, predicted grades, shoe size. ... vlookups galore!
Loads for lessons - height v arm length etc genetics surveys

At home:

Footie league data for my PlayStation league - who olayed/scored/results/table calculations ... yes ... nerd!

Electricity use appliences around the home / power consumption/ predicted bills

Bank accounts/savings/interest calculations

Plotting frequency v dB when I'm designing my speakers.

DVD database/catalogue (all my disks are in wallets in storage boxes)

Name and address database

Mortgage payoff calculations

Pros / cons with factor ratings when making big decisions

Pump frequency and fan speed v heater air temperature and CO of exhaust while tuning a diesel heater

Ship's log, engine run time

Family tree

Car fuel/mileage/mpg

Head speed v laser power v material v thickness for my laser cutter

List of names to be put against the wall when the revolution comes.

List of names to be put against the wall when the revolution comes. Vol 2

Spreadsheets .... big fan!
Jesus wept!
 
One of my lads rugby coaches, who had a touch of the Keith Larges about him, used to use one to keep track of who’d played, who’d scored, who’d got an assist etc.

He was told in no uncertain terms that keeping a spread sheet on the sporting stats of 8yr olds was definitely something that would draw the attention of the authorities, if “ someone “ was of a kind to report him.

He stopped.
Not quite as bad but the guy who organises our 6 a side football game has given us all rankings for different characteristics to help him pick teams.

Sadly, I want to know what my score is.
 
Years back for my kid's 5th birthday, he wanted a treasure hunt, but the problem was there was like 25 kids and not all knew how to read, so I came up with this fairly elaborate team-based treasure hunt, which included colored-coded maps/clues/teams etc. It was stressful.

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@chrismpw a man after you`re own heart.
 

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