Wow, Drew. I'm impressed--a healthy money relationship before you even get married! Love the NQA buckets. :-) Karen
On 2-Jun-09, at 2:54 PM, Druzyne wrote: > >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---