Multi-category budgets (or exclude categories from total budget)

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I want to focus my budgeting on things I have day-to-day control over. I have no day-to-day control over housing costs, bills, repairs, maintenance, and repeating costs I’m committed to (e.g. gym membership, haircuts). I do have control over eating out, groceries, entertainment, and shopping. It adds unnecessary complexity to manage this day-to-day spending in four separate category budgets. I just want a single “discretionary spending” budget. At the same time it’s useful to break down these categories in the spending analysis (e.g. how much am I burning on eating out?) so I don’t want to abolish these categories.

I can see two possible solutions:

  1. Multi-category budgets (same as Money Dashboard)

or

  1. Exclude categories from the “total” budget. I know I can exclude things from the total spending, but I don’t want to do this as I still need to keep an eye on overall spending.
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Hey @niczap,

This is an interesting idea!

How do the Multi-category budgets work? Do you have a main category and then sub-categories within those?

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Hi @Connor

No there’s all included categories have the same status within the budget. For example, I might set up a “luxuries” budget and include “eating out”, “shopping” and “entertainment”

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Just adding my voice to this request. It would be great to exclude bills from my budget but still show them in overall spending.

This way I can see how I’m doing month to month generally and how my discretionary spend is going.

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Just wanted to add a +1 to this request.

Being able to exclude specific categories from analytics and budget would be super useful to me. Right now I have to use the excluded category, but I want a way to keep certain kinds of transactions different separated from others…

Are there any plans to work on this?