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> How much money did i spend daily on groceries last month

Can you expand on this slightly? One of my frustrations with personal finance tools that I have tried in the past is that they're really bad at modelling occasional expenses— for example as a low-car family, we only fuel our vehicle once every 4-5 weeks, so some months the "gas budget" goes unused, whereas other months if we take a trip, we'll completely blow the gas budget because we fuel up twice or three times.

I wish it were possible to "smooth" those kinds of expenses into an average daily amount, but also have a way of indicating that a particular chunk of them should actually be extracted from the smoothing and assigned to a different category altogether (eg, the gas used on the trip should go to "vacations", not "vehicle"). A similar thing applies with other bursty things like home repair expenses, where I'd like my Home Depot receipts amortized over a time period that I specify rather than counted right at the moment of purchase.

parent mikepurvis 5 years ago

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