![]() ![]() You can add a historical expense that you forgot to book and not have to worry about tying it to or splitting a certain ATM withdrawal. ![]() Notice how, after adding a $40 cash expense (being sure the “auto deduct” box is UNCHECKED), my spending has increased, and my net income has decreased, by $40:Īs long as you transfer all of your ATM transactions to “Cash for Spending,” and as long as your Trends page shows no ATM withdrawal expenses, you can add as many cash expenses as you like without double booking an expense. Only use that page as a reference to see how much you withdrew at any given time. But don’t trick yourself into thinking they are expenses because you see a negative sign-so stop looking at the Transactions page. You can still see them on your Transactions pages, or if you search for “Transfer to cash for spending,” but they will have negative signs tacked to them to reflect their moving out of your bank account. Keep in mind that because these are transfers, but Mint does not have a wallet-type cash account, these transfers will not appear as an income anywhere and are gone from Trends. spent because I have yet to tell Mint if I’ve spent the $60. Thus, my net income is better reflected to what I actually made vs. The $60 has completely disappeared from my expenses, and in fact, my total expenses for March went down by $60: Imagine if I had withdrawn $4400 from the ATM over the course of March but spent none of it-Mint would say I net only $30.88! To prevent this misrepresentation, change the withdrawal’s category from “Uncategorized > Cash and ATM” to “Transfer > Transfer for Cash Spending.” Here is the refreshed Trends > Spending page after doing so: Here’s a look at my March Net Income from Trends (note: I’ve fudged the numbers so this is not actually how much I made/spent in March =) ) with Mint’s counting ATM withdrawals in Spending: I want to know if and how I spend that $60-what Mint is for. Were I to check this against my bank balance on the Overview page, I would see that my bank account has indeed gone down by $60. Here is a screen shot of part of my March transactions from Trends > Spending, with ATM withdrawals set to the default “Cash and ATM.”
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