Furnishing a house is expensive. Would you consider the costs Discretionary or Non-Discretionary? I am hesitant to throw them in my “Home” Category as they will bloat the Category. Not sure where to throw them in my current list. Any ideas? [Screen Shot 2022-02-28 at 5.41.17 PM]

This might be better in the discussion section. But more strictly speaking furniture, which I think as part of FF&E is discretionary depending on the replacement cycle. looking at your list you have a couple of items under listing that would be considered discretionary. But maybe you can have two ca…

Thanks for your reply. I didn’t think to add a FF&E Category but I think it’s a good one. Can you provide some details on “looking at your list you have a couple of items under living that would be considered discretionary.” Which would those be?

Also this might be a difference of what I’m thinking is included vs what you included in there, ie a couple of “Home” items seems to be included in other categorizes in but: professional expenses, pets, amazon, fees: investment, fees: general, services. For me I started to think of disposable and di…

I am at a loss whether to throw all home expenses in the same broad category or break them out into semi-large categories like Home: Utilities, Home: Services etc. For now I am grouping all Amazon transactions in one Category while I try and figure out the Amazon CSV importer. Most of what I buy on…

At the end of the day it’s really how you want to use the data. 'cause for me I group more in terms of sectors of life ie car related items, food related items because it’s from that I can either reduce spending or track CC categories.

Yea I am thinking I should consolidate. So you’re suggesting that I combine similar category items into a larger master category?

Is furniture Discretionary or Non-Discretionary?

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ctlee March 1, 2022, 10:59pm 9

for better or worse it comes down to how you want to use each piece of data. I had asked about Differentiating similar categories - #2 by jpfieber earlier because I differentiate at that level, if that’s not useful to you; yeah just combine it.

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Is furniture Discretionary or Non-Discretionary?

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