I've recently been debating splitting up my buckets, but not into ordinary subcategories, more by: 1) necessary vs discretionary 2) periodic (>1mo) vs monthly 3) fixed vs variable
But I haven't yet decided. I've been tempted to go with #2 there, just so I know which buckets I expect to have a $0 balance at the end of the month, since they start over, and which are accruing balances for long term stuff. On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:28 AM, smsm1 wrote: > > I would also recommend reducing the number of buckets to the minimum > possible. Do you really need to subdivide all those things? I have > recently combined some buckets and it makes things simpler. > > Shaun > > On Mar 24, 2:28 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mar 24, 2009, at 3:51 AM, Lance wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> I have quite a few Expense buckets (~40) and this can make it >>> difficult to quickly find a bucket of interest when dragging & >>> dropping money flows. >> >>> At first I tried to follow the advice on the web site and >>> consolidate >>> my buckets (i.e. merge buckets like Electricity, Water, and Garbage >>> into a single "Utilties" bucket) but this quickly broke down as it >>> became too difficult to figure out how much to put in the Spending >>> Plan for each merged bucket. I'm using MoneyWell to replace what I >>> used to do manually in Excel, so I want to avoid having to >>> maintain a >>> separate spreadsheet just to track the estimated expenses for >>> individual components of each bucket. >> >>> So I went back to having ~40 buckets and tried prefixing each bucket >>> name with a category (i.e. Utilities-Electricity) but this has the >>> major downside of crippling the auto-complete feature (I now have to >>> type "Utilities-E" instead of just "E"). >> >>> At this point I've settled on creating "dummy" buckets to act as >>> dividers. For example, I create a bucket named "----- UTILITIES >>> -----" >>> and move it so it sits above all my Utility buckets. This has been >>> working OK so far, but has the downside of taking up more screen >>> real >>> estate in the bucket list. >> >>> It seems like the ideal solution would be to consolidate the buckets >>> and add a feature to MoneyWell that lets you do sort of a "split >>> transaction" on the spending plan amount so you can plan for the >>> individual component amounts and have MoneyWell sum them up for you. >> >>> How have others handled this problem? Or am I just missing something >>> here? >> >> Lance, >> >> I highly recommend not creating dummy buckets. You can drag and order >> buckets any way you like so you can group all your utility buckets >> together without having to prefix them with "Utility." Just drag a >> bucket above or below another until you see a line between them and >> release. >> >> Try this and let me know if that solves your need for organization >> please. >> >> Peace, >> >> Kevin Hoctor >> [email protected] >> No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp:// >> kevinhoctor.blogspot.com > > -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
