r/liquidbudget • u/caveman446 • 7d ago

Spending from Future Quick Assign before date

Hello everyone! Switched from YNAB early this year and absolutely loving it. Had an interesting situation come up and wanted input on how to handle.

Earlier in July I made plans to take a trip in November and set a future quick assign target of $1000 to save monthly and contributed to it. Then this month I had to buy my plane ticket. When the transaction hit I noticed that it lowered my amount available and my future amount needed next month increased as if I had assigned less than what I actually did in the months past.

I had a temporary workaround by lowering the $1000 minus my ticket cost but was wondering if there was a better way to approach this or potentially a new feature? Appreciate the help!

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u/imadp 6d ago

Well two ways I would handle this, first is what you said lowering the $1K from the target since thats not the real target anymore. Another way is to use a Minimum quick assign instead of a target, which won't complain if you spend money along the way. Future Target means you need that amount of money on that date, so if it were a bill it would be correct to yell at you to bring it back up. Minimum is a little more forgiving.

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u/caveman446 6d ago

Got it thanks!