I guess I want to see that $600 of my check went to the Groceries and Fuel buckets. But I guess I don't have to keep track of that. I have to keep in mind that it is my money flows I'm tracking. What goes in my account is all I need to worry about.
As for tracking my wife's money... It would cause more strife to try to get that info from her than to not track it. I should mention that she is a substitute teacher so her contribution to the family income pretty much amounts to her mad money so I don't keep up with it. -Craig On Mar 26, 6:54 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:10 PM, ritch wrote: > > > My wife handles the grocery shopping and she gets money for her auto > > fuel from my pay check. To make this easy I use direct deposit to > > deposit this money directly into her account. How do I get this setup > > in MoneyWell. > > Hi Craig, > > It gets trickier if you are not managing both sides, but I'll take a > shot at this. > > > Let's play with some numbers... say my paycheck is $2000. > > Groceries and gas to my wife totals $600 (I want to track this flow in > > MoneyWell) > > The way I have Direct Deposit setup $1400 goes straight to my account > > and the $600 goes to her account. > > > I need to enter the $2000 into my register so that I can allocate the > > $600 going to gas and groceries but at the same time my register can > > only show $1400 so it will match the downloaded transaction from the > > bank from the direct deposit. > > > Any ideas? > > If you never see the $2000 and only see $1400, why do you want to > enter the gross amount? Just enter $1400. > > > BTW, I don't track my wife's account... I don't want to know. :-) > > I have a Checking Account and Cash Account to work with. > > MoneyWell is designed to track actual cash flow so if you don't want > to see the money your wife spends, then just ignore that part of the > transaction on your side as well. > > I would recommend rethinking this though and talk about combining your > cash flow management since money problems are the most common for > married couples, it would be good if you were both following the same > rules for spending. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
