> Currently I'm using 2 different documents, one for my personal > accounts and another for my house accounts. > > If I use only one document for all the accounts, how the spending > buckets will be treated? Do I have to duplicate buckets for the two > accounts (Personal Restaurants and House Restaurants) or I can use > just one (Restaurants) and I can view the bucket for the two > accounts?
Oletros, I personally think you'd be saving yourself a lot of extra work and confusion by having just one document with both your personal and joint accounts. For starters, you'd have a single transfer transaction for contributions to the joint account - rather than having to open another document and recreate the transaction. Also, you'll get the benefit of being able to see all your money at once. Since the separate accounts indicate separate purposes, it's not inappropriate for there to be a bucket for each. How many "duplicates" are there? If you're looking to consolidate buckets, you might be able to combine some of the household expenses, or some of the personal expenses in one bucket. For example, an "Entertainment" and a "Vacation" bucket could be combined into a "Fun" bucket. Soon I'll be joining my accounts with those of my fiancee, and I think MoneyWell perfectly allows the independence many find in personal accounts. Much like a virtual account, we each will have an NQA bucket ("No Questions Asked") for personal discretionary spending. Whether we save for big-ticket personal purchases, or blow it on a lot of small things, is completely up to us individually. We think it will work because we trust each other to stick to the limits, but we don't have to justify these purchases to each other. That's the theory, anyways - we'll see how it holds up in practice.... :) //Drew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---