Money and Spreadsheets

All year, Maia has been keeping track of her spending money alternately on paper and with an excel spreadsheet. Each week on monday, she asks for her spending money. She pays for library fines, thrift store purchases, field trip memorabilia (mostly postcards for her collection), presents for others, and various other things. Record keeping is hard for many adults, so it is great to give kids time to actually learn to do it easily and stress free. Every time she records her income or spending, she counts the money by herself. If there is a discrepancy, we figure it out together. She recently decided that she didn't need to use the computer much so she returned to paper money records and calendars. Go figure.