Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-04-16 Thread Justin Abrahms
That makes perfect sense. Thanks. :) On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > There are two methods going on in this thread, a simple method of keeping > a running account of the other person's contributions and paying their > share of expenses from that account, and a more comple

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-04-16 Thread Martin Blais
There are two methods going on in this thread, a simple method of keeping a running account of the other person's contributions and paying their share of expenses from that account, and a more complex method of maintaining a separate beancount ledger dedicated for the project and that recording con

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-04-16 Thread justin
This thread feels suspiciously close to the change I'm trying to model, but it's still not quite making sense to me. I have several roommates. I originally thought that each person would pay into an "Asset:Pending:GoesToRent" account, then that would pay out to the "Expenses:Housing:TheMortgage

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-02-16 Thread Martin Blais
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard < >> jer...@jeremyms.com> wrote: >> >>> How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) >>>

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-02-16 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard > wrote: > >> How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) >> account? If you want to keep track of joint expenses that your girlfriend >> paid for, you could

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-02-05 Thread Martin Blais
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) > account? If you want to keep track of joint expenses that your girlfriend > paid for, you could make the source account: Equity:Girlfriend-Paid or > somethin

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-02-02 Thread Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) account? If you want to keep track of joint expenses that your girlfriend paid for, you could make the source account: Equity:Girlfriend-Paid or something similar? Tags on accounts (or postings?) would be a nice thing to ha

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-29 Thread Martin Blais
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:59:04PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Simon Michael > wrote: > > > Congrats, Martin!! > > Ditto! > > > > Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-)

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:59:04PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Simon Michael wrote: > > Congrats, Martin!! Ditto! > > Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-) So, *cough* I'm actually doing the same think for my kid *cough*, with a t

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-29 Thread Martin Blais
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Simon Michael wrote: > Congrats, Martin!! > Thanks! > Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-) > In inflation-adjusted terms! ;-) Just kidding > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Be

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-29 Thread Simon Michael
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Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-28 Thread Martin Blais
... and this, to operate on the personal Ledger to divert the expenses to a single "child" account: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/6fa5306f04df887207b1a12062b7107ab169d109 This completes the system. It works. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > https://bitbuck

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-28 Thread Martin Blais
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/d21ed26280ccebcb5e034a86e33ce6c5b842b858 Works great! On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:04 AM, Martin Blais wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Sorry all for the very slow response. The holiday period got the better >> of me. >

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-26 Thread Martin Blais
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > Hey, > > Sorry all for the very slow response. The holiday period got the better of > me. > > All of these methods you've mentioned seem to only count half the cost on > your own accounts though and the other half is counted against a generic > account fo

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2018-01-24 Thread adde . falk
Hey, Sorry all for the very slow response. The holiday period got the better of me. All of these methods you've mentioned seem to only count half the cost on your own accounts though and the other half is counted against a generic account for your partner or roommate? What I would like to do i

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2017-12-24 Thread Dominik Aumayr
To give another example: My partner uses Beancount and Fava (https://beancount.github.io/fava/) as well, and we both have a Liabilities-account for each other. So if I buy something that belongs to her but I pay, I create an according transaction (eg. Assets:CreditCard and Liabilities:Partner),

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2017-12-23 Thread Martin Blais
I do this too - my partner and I share most expenses - and the simple way is to create for your girlfriend an assets account (if she generally pays after the fact) or a liabilities account (if she generally pays ahead of time), and then to use the SQL client to generate a journal of that account t

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

2017-12-18 Thread Zhuoyun Wei
Hi Andreas, I track my shared expenses with my roommates this way: ; My roommate pays, the dinner is 100 for each of us 2017-12-01 * "Dining out" Equity:ARAP:Alice -100.00 CNY Expenses:Food:DiningOut 100.00 CNY ; I pay for the rent, which is 3000 for each of us 2017-12-02 * "Rent for Nove