Restoration / Rebuild spreadsheet

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Thanks, I am a spreadsheet junkie. I started one similar to the work of Jerry Doe. As the cost of even little things started adding up, I decided this was a document I did not want my wife to stumble across. So I stopped. Even when I'm gone, I do not want her to know I kept one secret from her. If she knows how much I spent, it might affect what she does with my ashes. I really don't want flushed down the commode.

Chuck
 
I believe a sheet like that is a great help to someone looking to understand their budget needs prior to deciding what to do. Especially if new to this game as it ALWAYS costs more and ALWAYS takes longer than you first think.

But personally, on an ongoing basis, I stopped counting the cost of bike work years ago.

If I can afford and justify something I want, I’ll have it.
If I can’t, I won’t.
Simple!

It’s all for my own enjoyment at the end of the day and having a spreadsheet remind me how much I’ve spent won’t help that!

I have other very successful ways in life to get nagged at... I have no desire to increase these...
 
I just keep a running sheet with upgrades, work done, venders used and dates to pass down with the bike. I also keep a record of any electrical changes with drawing. For some reason there is never a column for $$. Must be a computer glitch.

Pete
 
I have original spreadsheets going back over 20 years, and somewhere I have the hand-written ones from the late 70s. Every bike I've ever owned, and every client bike I've ever worked on.

I find them very handy, and link all the individual sheets to a master sheet that tallies up the pending projected expenses, total costs, total current values (for the annual Financial Statement); also the master sheet has hyperlinks to each individual sheet so I can "pop over" easily and do a bike update without searching for that bike's sheet. It's got columns for battery model, tire specs, spark plugs, last oil change date, and last time started/ridden.
 
I not only don't want my wife to know what the costs are, I don't want to know either.
On a similar note, you should have enough motorcycles so that when you buy another one, she will not notice.
I actually once bought a red 850 Suzuki and parked it right in front of the spot where she parks her car.
She never noticed it. Apparently I have enough bikes.
 
XTINCT said:
I not only don't want my wife to know what the costs are, I don't want to know either.
On a similar note, you should have enough motorcycles so that when you buy another one, she will not notice.
I actually once bought a red 850 Suzuki and parked it right in front of the spot where she parks her car.
She never noticed it. Apparently I have enough bikes.
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Now that is funny!
 
Another way to trick the wife (and I swear I never did this :cool: ) is to always get bikes the same color. They notice if a new color shows up but not if another bike does. :rolleyes:
 
swooshdave said:
Another way to trick the wife (and I swear I never did this :cool: ) is to always get bikes the same color. They notice if a new color shows up but not if another bike does. :rolleyes:
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A buddy once bought a bike and I picked it up for him as it was out of state and I was in the area. His comment to me was "This worked out perfectly. I'm selling the old one next week and they're both orange and black KTMs. She'll never even know I bought a new bike."
 
Years ago my wife asked me why I needed another (so many) motorcycles. I reminded her of our pre-nup, which, although not written, said in essence that motorcycles, and firearms would be acquired and not sold until we got tired of eating pasta... or ran out. AND are like shoes, the more you have the longer they last...
 
So when I worked on the bike I copied the entire parts list from Old Britts and put it in a spreadsheet. Shhhh, don’t tell Fred. From there I marked which parts I had and which parts I needed. Anything I wasn’t going to get from Old Britts or wasn’t stock I just added. Or this like services like powder coating.

I could then have a complete list of what I needed and could prioritize into what I needed next vs. what my budget could support for the next order.

And no, I didn’t want to know what the final numbers were.
 
Two things I never wanted to know the cost:

1) My hobbies

2) My divorce

Not necessarily in that order.

Slick
 
After a stalking incident I too no longer do FB. Is there another way to view your spreadsheet?
 
texasSlick said:
Two things I never wanted to know the cost:

1) My hobbies

2) My divorce

Not necessarily in that order.

Slick
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Slick
It's not necessarily the cost that I want to track.
It'd good to keep track of what and where you bought things
....not that my memory is fading or anything you understand.... ahem!
 
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