I am wondering how are people dealing with this kind of thing, since I 
don't have a solution. As an example, I buy plane tickets well in advance 
for my 2019 vacation, so I buy tickets in 2018. So I have transaction 
posting like so

2018/05/01 * Vacation tickets
  Expenses:Vacation                  500 USD
  Assets:Checking

I then go on the vacation in 2019 and make a bunch of transactions, all of 
them are dated 2019 of course. At some point in the future I run a balance 
report to answer the simple question, "how much did I spent on vacation in 
2019?", which looks like so

ledger bal Expenses:Vacation -b 2019 -e 2010

And of course the plane tickets are not going to be accounted for.

How do you deal with this kind of thing, short of remembering that you have 
transactions in 2018, and I'd rather not rely on remembering it. I thought 
of just post dating the plane ticket transaction to 2019 but that seems 
extremely hacky.

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