I must admit I was a Facebook late adopter. But now that I see the value of that site, I decided it was time to try Twitter.

Why would anyone want to read short messages about what I am doing, I wondered. Who wants to know that I am sneaking candy from my kids’ stockings or checking out the CVS forum at hotcouponworld.com, debating whether I can stay up long enough to watch Top Chef, or starting my taxes already?

After signing up for an account last year and looking like a twit for not Twittering (sorry, couldn’t help myself), I decided to give the site a whirl…big time.

I’ve decided to twitter every penny I spend in 2009 for all to see.

Hope you’ll follow along. http://twitter.com/kablog

Now why would I do that?

Simple. People are always curious about how others spend their money. Yet many in our society consider it rude to ask “how much did you spend on that?” So people make guesses and assumptions about their friends and colleagues instead and try to keep up with the Joneses when they have no idea of the Joneses true financial picture.

So I’ve decided that I’ll let people see how much money I spend every day.

I will log the amount spent on both discretionary and non-discretionary items for 2009. But I’m not making my husband participate in this experiment, which is why you didn’t see we spent around $15 to see Valkyrie on Friday (I don’t even know the actual price).

Who knows? Maybe I’ll drive myself and my followers crazy. Or mayebe we’ll all learn something.

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