On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:57 PM, lterenzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for taking the time to answer Patrick. I want to get this so > bad because I think it can really help us but I just seem to be > confuserated (and old blues idiom) by it all. >
You're welcome. I know from personal experience it can be difficult to get ones head around how all this works. > Here's another... For Dining Out I have $300 a month allocated. I want > all $300 ready to go for the whole month right away. Should I just set > it to First Half so it's all there ready to go? Yep, set it to first half and the bucket will get completely filled during the first half's allocation. > > Are the main reasons for First Half, Second Half to allocate paychecks > that come at those intervals. Basically at the beginning of each month > I want to fill all the buckets for that month right away. Should I > just set everything to First-Half? First and Second half are, at least for me, how I deal with receiving two paychecks. Some buckets I have set to "all month", which allocates half their spending plan in each half of the month ( groceries, child care, gasoline, etc ) are all month for me. I use the halves for half of the month specific expenditures. All my debt repayments are in the first half of the month, so that half fills my debt repayment bucket. The second half has a lot of my utilities, so they get filled in the second half of the month. > > Still confused... and feeling kind of frustrated and stupid to be > honest... :( To repeat myself, if you haven't watched the tutorials a couple of times, I'd highly recommend it. I think once you see how a couple of months work, it will all start making sense. I actually tracked my first two months in both MoneyWell and MS Money in case I decided to go back to MS Money. Needless to say, I haven't been even tempted to open MS Money now that I've got MoneyWell cranking. Good luck and if you have more questions, just ask. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
