Paul, The only reason to fill your buckets early is so you can start paying bills early. That's why MoneyWell has to show the buckets as having cash. If you want to wait then do as you suggested and wait for the first to allocate income.
Peace, Kevin Hoctor No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com Sent from my iPhone On Jan 10, 2009, at 5:32 AM, pgauntlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope I have understood this correctly - its one thing that > perpetually confuses me - sorry rather slow! > When I allocate income early in this way - therefore allocating to > next months bucket needs - the buckets fill up again immediately and > show me as having money left to spend this month but I don't want to > spend this money until next month (if that makes sense). This worried > me as it gave me the impression I had not fully spent my bucket > allocation for this month - so I now don't allocate income until the > first of each month. > Is anybody finding a succesful way to use this feature - I'd be very > grateful. > bw > Paul > > On Jan 9, 2:38 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:25 AM, ciara belle wrote: >> >>> Ok -- i was using this allocate drop down - think i did it wrong >>> If pay was 31st - should i choose next month starts in ONE day... (i >>> choose 15.... i was thinking next pay was in 16 days - which wasnt a >>> choice... so i chose 15 ... i was maybe wrong...) >> >> Ciara, >> >> The Allocate Income option for allocating early is to allow a >> paycheck >> that comes at the end of a month to be used before the first of the >> new month to allocate income for next months buckets. If you have all >> your bills for this month paid by the 20th and you get paid on that >> day, you can start allocating for the next month 10 or 12 days early. >> >> It doesn't change anything except that MoneyWell ignores the current >> month for allocations and focuses on next month if you set the days >> high enough. >> >> Peace, >> >> Kevin Hoctor >> [email protected] >> No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp:// >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
