hhpjobs
08-31-2007, 10:53 PM
Hey Guys,
From my understanding of using mint for a few hours, almost everything in the system is considered a monthly reoccurring expense. While this may be the case and acceptable to have for 95% of the things we do in our lives, some things are things that don't neccesarly need to tracked.
For example in my case, I transfered some money into my checking account so I could buy a used car. Before this month, I was spending money on Caltrain tickets/Buses for transportation (oh, The category Auto would be better off being transportation, since there is no subcategory for Caltrian Tickets, Bus Tickets, Purchases of Assets like bikes ...) and after that month, I bought a car.
So when I logged in into my mint account, I got a notification saying I spent a huge amount over my normal spending limit for auto. When I look at it, I understood it averaged my 200 bucks for the previous months expense for transportation with the purchase of the car.
I really has messed up my monthly expenses picture for this month, and the averages for the last 3-4 months because it counts it as a monthly expense instead of a one time transaction. So it reduced the usefulness of the graphic feature in spending trends and also the monthly averages for that category and overall spending monthly averages.
I guess the easy thing would be to exclude it from tracking on mint but it would then mess up other parts of the balance since everything is connected.
So, I'd like a way of telling mint its a one time thing, and it shouldn't track it by a monthly measurement system. Thanks!
- HHP
From my understanding of using mint for a few hours, almost everything in the system is considered a monthly reoccurring expense. While this may be the case and acceptable to have for 95% of the things we do in our lives, some things are things that don't neccesarly need to tracked.
For example in my case, I transfered some money into my checking account so I could buy a used car. Before this month, I was spending money on Caltrain tickets/Buses for transportation (oh, The category Auto would be better off being transportation, since there is no subcategory for Caltrian Tickets, Bus Tickets, Purchases of Assets like bikes ...) and after that month, I bought a car.
So when I logged in into my mint account, I got a notification saying I spent a huge amount over my normal spending limit for auto. When I look at it, I understood it averaged my 200 bucks for the previous months expense for transportation with the purchase of the car.
I really has messed up my monthly expenses picture for this month, and the averages for the last 3-4 months because it counts it as a monthly expense instead of a one time transaction. So it reduced the usefulness of the graphic feature in spending trends and also the monthly averages for that category and overall spending monthly averages.
I guess the easy thing would be to exclude it from tracking on mint but it would then mess up other parts of the balance since everything is connected.
So, I'd like a way of telling mint its a one time thing, and it shouldn't track it by a monthly measurement system. Thanks!
- HHP