Thanks for the suggestion Trish. I think your idea would work for some of the time, but in this case of the school lunches, I won't be paying again until early April. So this transaction is really my March transaction not my Feb transaction and i would like my next one (in April) to be for April's allocated bucket amount.
On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Patricia Cross wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
