
Just installed Catalina...
For the first time since I was 12 or so, I don’t have a YNAB4 budget. That would be change enough on its own, but my dad taught me how to budget on YNAB4. He taught me essentially all I know about money on YNAB4. We spent no telling how many hours talking and planning and just hanging out with YNAB4 open on our computers.
He’s no longer with me and that makes leaving behind, at least for now, YNAB4 that much harder. It’s just a budget program so no one I know will really understand why this sucks so much, and maybe no one here will, either, but I felt like I needed to whine to someone right now. So here it is.
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Install a VM and whatever OS you prefer and you can still run YNAB4. I use Parallels with Windows 10 and have YNAB 4 installed on my MacBook with Catalina, works great! Usually Parallels is 20% off on Black Friday. Or you can always use BootCamp with a separate partition for Mojave, its free but you have to restart the computer every time you want to switch.
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Habanero Salsa said:
It’s just a budget programIs it? YNAB (and I'm certain your dad did as well) teaches that sometimes things are more important than we initially think. If that is the case, you should adjust your plans to enable the important to happen.
Sometimes that truly is out of your hands, but in this case, you may be able to delete something less important from the current drive or arrange to spend $30-$50 on a new drive (either as a replacement or as an addition).
Reminders are comforting. If it is important to you, make it happen.
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Habanero Salsa said:
Really, though, I didn't mean to whine about YNAB4, per se, but more about closing a chapter of life, I guess, and losing YNAB4 is just a symptom.Reminders of a closed chapter of life are going to happen over and over, and that's okay. Be gentle to yourself about it. This wasn't supposed to happen; it's not the natural order of things.
And right now, if dropping some available dough on a cheap windows machine means the ability to hang on to that part of your life a little while longer...seriously, it's less than the cost of a couple of therapy appointments. Buy a computer, keep running YNAB 4 longer, and take care of yourself.
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I get it. I just lost my husband and there are things I don't want to get rid of, or am not ready to get rid of yet. YNAB4 is one of those things. My husband grew interested in our budget over time and it is one of the things we talked about often. It represents so much more than budgeting. I'm sorry you are struggling.