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Making a windfall last through lean times.
My finances have gotten weird lately (like so many people's). My spouse and I are extremely lucky to be able to work from home, full time, without any furloughs or unpaid time off.…
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: YNAB just gave me $15,000 @Faness It worked! Thank you!
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: YNAB just gave me $15,000 My total income for the month (in reports) is also a little over $12,000. Since there was no balance left over from last month (because Fresh Start), shouldn't my Inflow be the same as my Income?
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- 3 mths ago
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YNAB just gave me $15,000
I did a fresh start as of July 7. I re-entered the current balances for all my accounts. In the left toolbar, the "Budget" total correctly reflects the totals of my checking and savings accounts,…
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: Happy with your budget categories? Please share! @BradleyW When I make a category change, I recategorize past transactions to fit the new scheme. So when I started using a "Gifts" category, instead of a separate category for each gift,…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Happy with your budget categories? Please share! After many reorganizations, I think I'm happy with what I have - it's worked for about 3 months without a hiccup. This Month's Obligations: Everything due this month, sorted by due date.…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: What did you do to improve your finances today? After being with the same employer for almost 10 years, I finally started exploring some of the employee benefits in depth. I discovered that I could get car insurance through my employer for $700…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Reconciliation adjustment *every month*? UGH! So much for being "meticulous." I marked a transaction as cleared which was not... in the amount of $2,190. Sorry everyone - this is the second time tonight I've posted a question because I was…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Reconciliation adjustment *every month*? (just to see, I went and deleted all the reconciliations. It made it worse!)
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Reconciliation adjustment *every month*? It's a checking account. I reconciled against the cleared balance, not working balance. I also thought that maybe the adjustments themselves were causing problems - but then at some point there…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Reconciliation adjustment *every month*? The bank balance definitely doesn't include pending transactions, because it's the balance on the statement. That only uses items that have actually cleared in the calculation.…
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- 8 mths ago
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Reconciliation adjustment *every month*?
I enter transactions manually, and reconcile when I get my bank statements. Every year, the balance in YNAB is lower than my bank balance, and every month I can't figure out where the discrepancy is…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Uncleared balance confusion NEVER MIND! I was accidentally selecting all uncleared transactions AND all scheduled transactions. When I deselected the scheduled transactions, it all worked out.
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- 8 mths ago
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Uncleared balance confusion
Hi - I'm trying to figure out how the "uncleared balance" for an account is calculated. Right now, my checking account is showing an uncleared balance of about $1800.…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Newbie here: why is my TBB not in the red as I would expect? @dakinemaui December ended with a positive TBB, so I'm thinking that I screwed up by spending the same dollars twice, but then made enough money in December to fix it. Phew!
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- 9 mths ago
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Re: Newbie here: why is my TBB not in the red as I would expect? @dakinemaui So I'm closing out December, and noticed a weird thing. When I go back to October and November, the TBB is $0, as expected. But both of them show money budgeted in future (I'm now using…
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- 9 mths ago
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Re: Allocating HSA income directly to categories Thank you everyone for all the ideas. @Ceeses - I think I do need to set up the debts as tracking accounts, and also create a budget category for each one (so that I can budget for the regular…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Allocating HSA income directly to categories @Descriptor Noun No wait, that didn't work.... because when I transfer $ from my on-budget HSA to my on-budget medical debt, it doesn't ask for a category,…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Allocating HSA income directly to categories @Ceeses I think I actually have to move my HSA account on -budget, because I also use it to pay for new medical expenses as they occur. I think I need to just put the dollars on that card in my…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Allocating HSA income directly to categories I have some old medical debts, for which I'm on a payment plan. I have them set up as credit cards in my budget. I tried setting up my HSA as a tracking account,…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Prepaid Expenses Your plan is good with a lot of budgeting systems, but it's not how YNAB works. YNAB isn't only budgeting software, it's a budgeting method. You have already spent the first $1000 on your classes,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: OMG, I'm pregnant! How do I budget for THAT?! @Purple Piccolo said: Do baby and adult clothes come out of the same Clothes category? I'd buy baby food and diapers at the same time as groceries, so do I lump it all under the same category?…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: OMG, I'm pregnant! How do I budget for THAT?! Congratulations!! Budgeting for a first baby is hard to plan because you don't know what it's really going to be like. (The same is true of sleep, socializing, sex,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Workaround for lack of "Income for Next Month" in YNAB @Matt Tanner said: For example, this month I realized my power bill was higher than I thought, but when I upped the budget, it appeared as though I had plenty of cash to cover it (which I do,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How do Payees work? The payee is usually the person or place you bought something from, not the actual thing. The thing is the category. But you can use the payee column to track where your money comes from,…
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- 1 yr ago
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