I had remarked to The Wife that she had spent over N on clothes during the past month. She retorted that it couldn't be correct.

Thanks to http://www.wesabe.com, this was an easy thing to confirm. Wesabe organizes purchases that you upload to your Wesabe account from your bank. It creates some great charts and graphs for managing your money with precious little effort. All free of course.

I returned to The Wife and explained how all of the values are tagged correctly, and the value is actually N+1. There are purchases from Motherhood, Gap, Macy's and Old Navy.

And here's the quote:

"Oh, that's why! Not all of those are clothes. Macy's isn't clothes... it's make-up."

Zing!