On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > thanks for your quick answer, but I'm not completely sure if I got > your idea :) > >> That's close, but what I think you'd want to do is allocate money, >> that is, drag your money from A to the savings bucket. Then transfer > > Here is the first problem: There is no way to drag an account like A > to a bucket like "Savings". You can only do that for a transaction. At > least in 1.4 :) >
Pardon me, I forgot the intermediate step of allocating from an income bucket to the savings expense bucket. > > Since my "Savings" is an expense bucket MoneyWell also thinks that I > spent 1000 last month in savings, but that's only my positive starting > balance :) > I'd make your starting balance for the savings account to "optional", that way it won't skew any buckets. > I didn't think about using an intermediate income bucket. I actually > had the "easy, dirty" way in mind: If I want to "refill" a bucket I > would use a manual flow from my "Savings" expense bucket and I would > create a new transfer from B to A to get the funding. > > Maybe I'm thinking to complicated. What's the "normal" way to set up > savings and savings accounts? > > Maybe it's easier if I don't track the transfer to account B, so that > the savings are actually real expenses. And whenever I would need the > money for refilling buckets and on my bank account I would just use > another income category (as you proposed)? The way we have it setup in my household is this: !. Get paid, assign that to my "salary bucket". 2. Planned savings amount is allocated to "savings" expense bucket. 3. Transfer funds from Checking Account to Savings Account, charging the "savings" bucket. This way, my savings account reflects my "savings" for emergencies. Does that help clarify it? Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
