On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Brett Nord wrote:
> I used the example of Mortgage which i see would be a reoccurring > fixed expense that would always be around the same time every month. > But what this example: I pre-payed my kids school lunch for the whole > month of March on Feb 26th. I don't want to tell MW/spending plan to > start early just for that, right? and i don't want to forward-date > the transaction to 3/1 rather than 2/26 either, right? And i can't > simply drag/drop the transaction on the bucket and expect it to deduct > from my March budget for that bucket. I think I'm the odd one out, but I budget my expenses for the month I pay them in, not the month they're "for". In your example, I'd consider that lunch money to be a February expense. In March, you're going to do it again to pay for April's lunch, and in April you'll do it again for May's lunch, right? Same with my mortgage. I have a mortgage payment due on the first of the month. In order for the bank to have it on the first, I have to send it by the 25th. So the "February" mortgage payment actually comes out of my account in the second half of January, so I have it budgeted there. Then the "March" payment comes out of the second half of February. So although my mortgage is due on the first, I have it as a second-half allocation in my spending plan. -Trish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
