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Goodbye to an old spreadsheet
By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻
This is a silly story to tell for one lowly spreadsheet workbook, but it’s been such a dependable and significant part of my life for so many years that I feel like it deserves a send off. I ended up creating a LibreOffice Calc workbook analogue of YNAB with a few additional features, and spent a few days sanitising and importing data into this new format. In a weird way, it’s fun going through years of expenses and seeing payees like “Statue of Liberty Pedestal, NYC”, “Pret a Manger, Hong Kong”, and “Daily Yamazaki, Osaka” among the regular groceries and rent.
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