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spinst posted:Those are all of my savings goals. You can see how much I budgeted and how much I have saved up for each goal. The number on the top left ($485.35) is how much I need to move into my savings account that month. The number on the top right ($4529.38) is the total balance of my savings account. its been said before, but its worth repeating. YNAB doesn't care which account the money is in. You shouldn't need more than one savings account (or you can make do with just a checking just fine), YNAB splits it into virtual accounts regardless of how many accounts/banks its actually put into. And as someone not on salary, I fill in the budget for the month based on expected income, and adjust as needed when I know actual amounts. Just remember to spend "fun money" after everything else so the bills get paid. Its not quite how YNAB is designed, but it works fine. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Grouco posted:I forgot about a refer-a-friend promotion on my credit card, and noticed a $100 credit was posted this morning. How should I handle this in YNAB? Just a $100 inflow to my CC as income available for August?
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 18:14 |
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Mileage reimbursements. Should I enter them as "income for [month]" or as a positive transaction for the gas category?
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2014 01:46 |
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Pinball posted:Is there a way to get YNAB to not carry underspending or overspending in categories forward from month to month? I use it to track spending, and as long as I stay below my total budgeted amount for the month, I don't really care whether I overspent in certain categories. Essentially, is there a way to have it start fresh every month?
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 07:10 |
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HonorableTB posted:This thread has been inactive for a while, but I hope someone will see this and give me some help:
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 02:44 |
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Is there a way in YNAB to graph money allocated to pre-YNAB debt? Since it doesn't have a transaction its an invisible factor for all the graphs in reports, but something I want to see. I suppose I could mark them off budget and change to transactions, but that would have kinds of repercussions everywhere else.HonorableTB posted:So if I transfer the money from my savings over to checking, it'll balance out as long as I bring over the correct balances for each category? If you add up all the balances in each category (right column) it totals what you have in savings+checking. Again, YNAB doesn't care which account the money is in. It only tracks income, total balance, and output. As long as you don't overdraft, your actual checking account balance is irrelevant. The amount you have allocated to that category is the limit, not what you have in checking. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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HardDisk posted:Say I made a $200 purchase, but the store offers to divvy it up in four installments of $50 each. Each installment of the purchase will appear on my CC statement in the same day, but each with a month between them.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 00:57 |
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Gothmog1065 posted:If you have an account that has a "job" then you want it as an on account.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 03:32 |
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Easychair Bootson posted:I'm just getting started with YNAB with the immediate goal of paying off all credit card and student loan debt ASAP. The CC is set up as a Budget Account and the student loan as an Off-Budget Account. I'm going to still be using the credit card for upcoming purchases (for which I'll budget), and I've watched the video on handling credit cards in YNAB. YNAB is all about the former. Its not all about what the money needs to do before you get paid next (thats short term thinking). Its about planning ahead so that when the bill comes you have the money ready without even having to check balances or even really think about it. Bill arrives, bill gets paid, move on. Pretty much what the above said. Take your net income, subtract the categories you know you have to pay (including interest), subtract the relevant portion of known upcoming expenses, subtract an amount to cover savings and unknown costs, and put the rest into the principal balances. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Nov 30, 2014 |
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Not a Children posted:What should I do if I find myself continually underspending my budget? Obviously a good problem to have, but it looks like everything is a bit out of whack. For example, when I started, I budgeted about $150/mo for fuel. Now that I live close enough to work to bike/walk, that expense has gone down quite a lot, but the balance in that category is hanging around the mid $200s. Across all categories, my balance column totals to about double what my actual budget is. You can be as detailed or general with categories as you want to be. Some have a repair category for each car, some just have a general car category for everything car related. Sum of your category balances should equal your actual account balances. You want to have enough to pay out every category balance at once, so you are fine with that.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 16:49 |
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HonorableTB posted:I have a question about credit cards:
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 21:55 |
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I do a repeated scheduled for stuff that varies but is around the same time each month and just adjust the amount.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2014 05:42 |
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reports->net worth.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2014 06:00 |
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Anybody have a $15 steam key for YNAB floating around? I want to get a copy for my sister.
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# ¿ Dec 26, 2014 00:41 |
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Madbullogna posted:I've been patiently (not) watching each day to see if steam offers something better than the current sale, as I've finally decided to pick up a copy for myself. (As usual, I decide these things when there's not an awesome sale at that exact moment, ugh). Come on New Year's steam sale! I'm thinking they'll knock more of the price prior to the 2nd.
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# ¿ Dec 27, 2014 03:45 |
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Eight Is Legend posted:Do you guys use the scheduled transactions option at all? I know I'll be transferring some money from my checking account to my credit card at the beginning of January, but can't I just input the transfer in the main transactions/transfer field instead and put in the date I know they'll be transferred?
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# ¿ Dec 28, 2014 19:09 |
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Up to you how detailed you want to be. You can just create an off-budget "investments" account, and reconcile the balances each month along with to/from that account if you'd like. Or you can go whole hog and track each transaction. Investment accounts are going to be off budget unless you are spending from them, however. Dividends you would want to enter if they get sent to your main accounts, if they stay within the investments group and get reinvested I wouldn't bother. They aren't income in that sense, just an increase in your portfolio. Much like my student loan, but negative. I don't need to track how much interest I pay, I just send $X to it each month, and reconcile the balance to account for the interest as needed. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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jon joe posted:Sometimes I leave YNAB open all day, occasionally glancing at it, as if doing so will give me some financial eureka.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 07:18 |
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You need to switch the category to carryover instead of the default (which takes it off the top of the available balance the next month). Don't know the iPad version, in Windows you click on the red part of the category and it pops up a box with the 2 options.Chin Strap posted:Am I the only one that doesn't keep separate accounts and just lumps checking and credit cards all together? In order to get real balances I just use mint. I don't bother with off balance accounts either. Again I just use mint. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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Make a "minimum balance" category, stick 2500 in it, and hide that category.
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 03:13 |
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GreatGreen posted:Also, if you run YNAB directly from it's installation directory, or just point the shortcut there instead of using the one Steam places on the desktop, you can bypass the Steam requirement altogether.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 06:58 |
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spincube posted:...that should be '-20' entered in 'spending', instead of +50 like it is now. The +70 difference can be added to the +75 currently budgeted in 'clothing', making this month's clothing budget figure +145 - which should bring the total 'clothing' category balance to +155. I'm a functional adult
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 23:52 |
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People still carry cash? Cash that comes out of a machine gets logged as a purchase to a misc income category, cash that gets spent doesn't need to be logged. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Put the excess in an emergency fund category, you always want to have a category assigned for every dollar. Use a negative number in the emergency category to pull money out and into your general budget.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 17:12 |
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So you've created a "budgeting is hard" category. That works, but the idea is to either assign enough that you don't go over in a category or discipline yourself into not going over. If your e-fund runs out you won't be able just assign more each month.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 18:26 |
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Gripen5 posted:I kinda want to close out the transaction one way or the other. Is past 30 days pretty much mean I did get a free lunch?
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 20:39 |
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baby puzzle posted:I bought this when it was $15 on steam, but I'm just getting around to trying to use it. I was struggling with how to handle expenses that only happen every 6 months. I'm not totally sure that I've got it. I have yet to actually do anything but try to estimate a budget.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2015 05:18 |
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Easychair Bootson posted:I've watched the "handling credit cards" video a couple of times but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around things. We use the card day-to-day and currently can't pay the full balance. Well, we could, but that money is budgeted for other things in YNAB. My statement begins/ends around the 15th of the month. The statement that I just received looks like:
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 23:50 |
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Legally they can do whatever they choose up to your minimum payment, everything beyond the minimum is on the highest interest rate first. One of the few good things Obama has signed.</derail> And if there is a balance, even a 0% balance, they probably get to charge you interest immediately instead of having a period before it starts to accrue.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2015 07:59 |
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Lblitzer posted:I just started using YNAB so please bare with me if I'm overly complicating things! If you deposit the $50, mark is as inflow on that category, and budget your normal $50. When you pay the bill it will balance out at $0 category balance (-$100 payment, +$50 budgeted, +$50 inflow). Otherwise, spend the $50 cash wherever, decrease your food or entertainment budget amount by the $50, and budget $100 towards the category.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 18:16 |
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Why do you have an outflow under pre-ynab debt? And do I want to know what "meUndies" category it for?
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 19:04 |
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Teeter posted:Probably easier than buying 365 pairs of underwear in bulk.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 20:15 |
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Grouco posted:I have a "Cash" account, which I'll just transfer into from my chequing. I do track cash spending (groceries, household goods, alcohol, etc.) because I'm anal like that.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2015 20:13 |
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Teeter posted:I'm the same way, though I tend to keep $20 on me at all times because it's not uncommon that I need to pay for parking or something. I round up for cash transactions like Chin Strap does as well, but that's partly because it's easier to enter in YNAB and partly because I'd rather throw 17 cents to the curb or leave it in whatever tip/charity jar is near the register than carry it around. LogisticEarth posted:Considering how easy it is to carry a few bills if you're already carrying cards, I never get this. Why not just use a simple and ubiquitous tool? I always have cash on me, and it makes my life so much easier. Splitting a bill gets sent through paypal, I hardly ever need to tip, my area doesn't have toll roads... If I lived in that kind of area I would carry some, but I like my wallet being just ID, insurance cards (health/auto), 1 debit card, 1 credit card, and 1 piece of cash. Its nice and thin.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2015 21:13 |
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budget 750 in rent, write check for 1500, split her check as +750 income in the rent category and -x output in the other categories it goes towards.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 22:37 |
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Id like to see cross platform, and not so damned slow. But YNAB4 is pretty drat good overall.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2015 20:35 |
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You are overthinking this. Once or twice a month just pay off enough to make the balance owed correct.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2015 05:59 |
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Feature request submitted to the company: Recurring frequency of every 30 days (because some services bill by the day instead of monthly). grrr t-mo prepaid.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2015 20:55 |
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Spincube- this is why you should have both a buffer (rule 4) and savings. The buffer covers irregularities in pay and lets you ignore when you get paid, the savings is for longer or bigger issues.Radbot posted:I think I get that, but that still doesn't seem all that different from a two month emergency fund and otherwise living paycheck-to-paycheck - right? What you want is to have an entire months income sitting ready to go on the 31st for all normal expenses, PLUS an emergency fund for expenses you don't anticipate. In practice you pay bills as they come in, and you don't have to worry about when you get paid or how your paycheck(s) align with your bills. The funds are there because you had them on the 1st of the month. As to the original question from Karthe. Do it. The buffer is great for peace of mind. Functionally theres no difference, and you'll rebuild the emergency fund to where it was easily enough. Which account the money is in is primarily psychological anyway.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 20:27 |
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Karthe posted:So YNAB will know to go back and retroactively apply inflows to certain categories? I just don't want any visible red negative-balances on the Budget screen for those categories (I don't even budget for them because I know they'll zero out) when I've already been reimbursed.
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