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Re: Age of Money - Twenty-twenty! Still climbing since Fresh Start on 1/1/2020:
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- 5 days ago
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Re: Age of Money - Twenty-twenty! Since Fresh Start 1/1/2020
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
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- 4 wk ago
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Re: Age of Money - Twenty-twenty! @ISuckatMaths PIF is Paid In Full every month. There are different definitions here: some say pay the last statement; some say pay to zero every month.
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- Community Challenges
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Re: Using a joint Credit Card. Only I YNAB. My partner and I use the same CC easily. I do reconcile the CC account every day or two to make sure that when she doesn't give me receipts, I still know what was spent.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
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- 1 mth ago
- Money & Relationships
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Re: Yellow overspending? @dakinemaui If Toolkit is installed, there is an option to show Blue for this situation instead of yellow. Helps reduce confusion.
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- App Functions
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Re: Is zero based not for me? YNAB is a lot more Now focused than it seems like you want. If your only focus is yearly, then that is a different focus. On the other hand, if you want to control your spending,…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- Method & Budgeting
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Re: Does YNAB have a "notepad?" Oh, and don't forget Scheduled Transactions, which are often used as reminders.
- casner
- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
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- 1 mth ago
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- App Functions
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Re: Does YNAB have a "notepad?" You can attach notes to almost everything - categories, accounts, months, goals, and the memo field in transactions. What would you like to note that isn't currently available?…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- App Functions
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Re: Total available + TBB doesn't match TOTAL Budget I had something like this happen to me when I used the Mobile app to enter transactions and didn't realize that I had used a + for a transaction instead of a - for the transaction.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Accounts & Transactions
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Re: Using Goals for a Monthly Template If you use the Toolkit for YNAB , you can change the color for this situation to blue, preserving the real meaning of the orange blocks.
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- Method & Budgeting
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Re: Setting to set "Monday first" Any properly done UIM would use the computer's default, so that it would be the least intrusive to the user. Of course, that does require global thinking and a bit more programming.
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- App Functions
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Re: Setting to set "Monday first" @The Late Heavy Bombardment Or the ISO standard yyyy-mm-dd which is even more logical with the most significant to the left!
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- App Functions
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Re: managing low-interest debt @Ivory Storm When you do a transfer from the CC to the HELOC, you may show a negative Activity and/or Budgeted for the CC. Be sure to check that the CC company gets its "minimum payment" every month,…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- Managing Debt
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Re: Why does Credit Card Auto-payment need to be categorized? My Payee for my autopay shows as Payment:Main Checking and doesn't require a category.
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: managing low-interest debt If you are using the YNAB CC account, it should automatically allocate the amounts of purchases made on the card to the CC Available, which should be used to keep the CC balance in bounds.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Managing Debt
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Re: Using Goals - I think about it differently. Is that ok??? Now if the team at YNAB would just finish the feature of making that kind of goals have automatic rollover at years' end...
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Method & Budgeting
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Re: Using Goals - I think about it differently. Is that ok??? It's fun to read the forums when somebody comes up with a new way of using YNAB! I like your idea and will try it myself.
- casner
- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Method & Budgeting
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Re: Starting to lose a lot of faith in this software @Orchid Sound It could also be the bank limiting how far back the import goes. I have had this happen with File based import, so I suspect it could happen with direct import also.
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Accounts & Transactions
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Re: Budgeting my savings @Earl Wenger On your Budget screen, the amounts from 3. should show at the top as TBB (To Be Budgeted). You can budget that amount to the Savings Categories to get the TBB to zero.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
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- 1 mth ago
- Getting Started
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Re: Budgeted amount for CC $0 in new month @Cornflower Blue Clarinet Any outstanding charges that were unpaid when you created the CC Account should have been included in the initial balance. That is,…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- Credit Cards
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Re: Budgeted amount for CC $0 in new month The Account column should always match what the CC company says you owe, if their website is current and there are no pending purchases. That is the purpose of Reconcile Account,…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: Budgeting my savings That is the Accounts screen, for a specific Account. Since you have just started, when you created the Saving account in YNAB it should have asked you for the opening balance of the account.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- 3
- Getting Started
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Re: Budgeted amount for CC $0 in new month The Budget column in the CC category is useful if the CC is not PIF, and you are paying down a balance. In that case, you put the extra to be paid in that column.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: Budgeted amount for CC $0 in new month The way CC's are meant to work in YNAB is that purchases on the CC automatically get allocated from the Activity column of that CC, and add to the Available total.…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Credit Cards
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Re: Any way to make target goals by date RECURRING? @Silver Inspector I use both Scheduled Transactions and Goals rather heavily. Yes, I am buffered, which makes it easier. The Scheduled amounts do show up if you select a Category in the Budget…
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- Now retired, and figuring out transitions
- casner
- 1 mth ago
- Method & Budgeting
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