"Don’t let your ego be attached to the numbers."

And how I learned this exact lesson last week!

Hi and welcome to The Ladybird Purse, my weekly newsletter about women and money. I’m not a financial advisor and not qualified to give financial advice. Turns out, I can barely even manage a spreadsheet.

I have, over the past few years, kept a running spreadsheet of income and expenses that I then use to do my tax return. I started when I split up with…