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Re: Not a great Start import has been a problem since the beginning. Mint is owned by intuit, the makers of Quicken or more or less the original big player in the money management software world.…
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- Obsidiank
- 4 mths ago
- Bank Importing
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Re: Large Medical Expense: Pay it off completely or take the interest free payment plan? free money is free money. I would take it.
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- 4 mths ago
- Managing Debt
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Re: Credit cards inconsistency?? Don't understand did you accidentally transfer money our of your CC to somewhere else?
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- 4 mths ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: How to pay down orange $8 overpayment alert? @nolesrule is correct. When the bank did the $8 transfer from CC to Checking, $8 would have been added to TBB. It would have been seen as a cash advance. 1.…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
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- Credit Cards
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Re: How to pay down orange $8 overpayment alert? the payment is cash to card. The overspend is in your budget category. Put $8 into the budget line for the category.
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: New! Confusion re: TBB, overspending in categories, and syncing of accounts what's the category on those automatic payments? Is it TBB? that would explain why it went to red. What were those payments for?
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Incorrect Negative Credit Card Payment I also suspect your transfer out to Mommy & Daddy might have something to do with it. Transfer outs from CC like cash advances sometimes does weird things
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Incorrect Negative Credit Card Payment without seeing your whole transaction history/budget it would be hard to tell. However, that's the most likely scenario, that you spent in a category you didn't budget for so the dollars never moved…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: Incorrect Negative Credit Card Payment did you budget the full amount to you credit card payment category? That negative indicates that you paid the credit card but was short in your budget amount
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: Incorrect Negative Credit Card Payment do you have refunds that came in before/after you made a payment?
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: Splitwise + Credit Cards + YNAB - oh my! this generally has to do with your level of diligence in categorizing because essentially your issue is the reimbursement from the split and true up. Let's say you create budget for Food/Fun/Other,…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Money & Relationships
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Re: Scheduling paychecks? I also do this
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- 1 yr ago
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- Accounts & Transactions
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Re: Help! Where to put "Fun Money"? I'm going to focus on the philosophical and ask when you say they all feel like equal priorities, does that mean that maybe what you're using to measure priorities isn't very systematic or logical?…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: tracking budget "changes" associated with overspend this is a change in the base philosophy of not spending what you don't physically have whereas the old way allows you to anticipate future dollars and spend it now.…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Method & Budgeting
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Re: Handling extra money not budgeting for it kinda defeats the base philosophy of putting every dollar to work. 1. Create Savings Budget category and park the money there 2. Create tracking Savings account and park the…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Accounts & Transactions
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Re: Lost card results in new credit card, ruins budget We aren't speaking the same language as it relates to "closing an account". If I'm in my budget and I see all my accounts on the left, here's what I would do. 1.…
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- 1 yr ago
- Bank Importing
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Re: Lost card results in new credit card, ruins budget are you using YNAB web or YNAB4?
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- 1 yr ago
- Bank Importing
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Re: Credit Cards: Budgeted vs Activity vs Available I'm not sure I understand the grocery example. What do you mean by budget is trustworthy. Let's say I spent $75.00 in cash on groceries and $25.00 on my credit card.…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Credit Cards: Budgeted vs Activity vs Available I think you're confusing the budget with transactions. Let's say you don't have $1000. You can't budget $1000 to medicine. You budget $250 to medicine.…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
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- Credit Cards
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Re: Lost card results in new credit card, ruins budget how are you adding the new card? I have done this many times without issue as I recently experienced fraud. First the disconnect the account by unlinking. Then I remove the connection all together.…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
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- Bank Importing
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Re: Moving from Mvelopes yes, if you keep budgeting into the category it will keep growing
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- 1 yr ago
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- Getting Started
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Re: Covering overspending frequently? My girlfriend was budgeting $100 month for uber rides and then after the first month realized she was spending close to $200. She kept that up for close to 3 months until it because crystal clear…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Method & Budgeting
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Re: Credit Cards: Budgeted vs Activity vs Available @kmount , have you go through some of the learning videos. It sounds to me like this is confusing because you aren't really subscribing to the philosophy and method of YNAB and simply using the tool…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- Credit Cards
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Payee Title Includes the word "Sale" - Chase
I noticed a change recently wherein the Payee name now has the word "Sale" tacked on to the front. For example "Sale Grocery Store X" instead of just Grocery Store X.…
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- Obsidiank
- 1 yr ago
- 3 replies
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- Bank Importing
CC Refunds, Clear as Mud
I've been trying to wrap my head around this all night. Finally decided to just do a sample budget to see what happens and I think it cleared it up for me. The basic premise is easy.…
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- 1 yr ago
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