On Jan 1, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Jaysen wrote: > I know I am slower than most, but I think I made a boo boo. Hopefully > someone can offer some quick and simple guidance. > > Following Kevin's KISS principle for bucketing I did not create > buckets for each loan payment. I allocated my car payments in either > "Debt Repayment", "Automobile", or "Loans". Now a normal person > probably would have updated the descriptions to indicate which > expenses are associated with which bucket, but I have never claimed > "normalcy". > > So what do the rest of you do? I figure I have to sort all this out as > I did this for just about every bill I have. Luckily some are easier > than others. It is hard for me to confuse just what the "Gas and > Electric" bucket is for.
Jaysen, When I moved my transactions over from Quicken, I had a huge mess of categories and various names for the same payee. What I ended up doing was selecting several transactions at once and doing a mass edit in the transaction detail. I also did a lot of dragging and dropping to new buckets to consolidate them. It's easier to do now with 1.4 since you can hold down the Option key while dragging one bucket to another to merge them. In one case, I had my auto insurance and homeowners insurance confused because they are both State Farm and both similar amounts. I actually ended up filtering my transactions to "State Farm" and sorting by date so I could select every other one and give it a unique name (State Farm Auto and State Farm Homeowners). I also updated my memorized transactions for each so the automatic payments, which had slightly different names, would comply with this new naming scheme and I could keep my one insurance bucket but still retain some detail in my reporting. Peace, Kevin Hoctor [email protected] No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
