Using a joint Credit Card. Only I YNAB.
Hello,
My wife is not a YNABer, she can actually do it all in her brain. I rely on YNAB 100%. We want to use a joint credit card to maximize the rewards, any advice on how to do that and maintain my YNAB? I not going to ask her use the app and track her spending, she doesn't need to...
Anyone else been in this situation or have a hack?
Thanks!
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Best tip: get another CC account so you don't have to worry about it.
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Treat her charges on the CC as reimbursable expenses, categorized to Wife Expenses or similar. Categorize her payment to the same category.
https://docs.youneedabudget.com/article/183-reimbursements
Pick one of the approaches in that article for the budget side. The offset category is hands-off after an initial application. The temporary debt approach requires you to shift funds when her category turns green. Pretty simple.
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Oh, and the video in that linked documentation is in error. The text is correct, stating to categorize the inflow to the same category.
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Thank you for the suggestions. Have a good day!
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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. I guess at categories sometimes.
