Budgeting blues

I think that is what I will do next month, keeping a small amount in the bank to pay for train tickets and maybe one book a month from Amazon. What I have done up to now is track what I have spent in a tiny multicoloured excel spreadsheet, ... OK, January is when I do my bulk garden order and that could have come out of short-term savings but there's already some wool (from the sales), train fares to get Sally to university interviews and Sally's hotel at Eastercon (£216! ...