30
May
Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost, The Hardship of Accounting
I remember reading this years ago when I first came up with the Three Piece Plan. I got goosebumps realizing I was onto something- because if this was written decades ago it meant I had hit on a principle.
Indeed, Robert Frost nailed it on the head- and it’s why regular budgets don’t work- “No one was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”