wackiest recurring expense

[Bill Gribble]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:05:57AM -0800, Joshua Sled wrote:
> So, my wackiest recurring expense is food: it's some formula involving
> how many times I eat in, eat out, and if I eat out, whether it's a nice
> dinner or not, or if I eat in, if I make it ... and if I do, how exotic
> the recipe [pine-nuts, for instance, are really damn expensive], and if
> I get a bottle of wine or not...

For something like this, I would just take the average historical
monthly expense for the "Food" expense account and amortize it daily.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect users to enter complex
formulas for recurring expenses; either it's a real, fixed expense
that recurs at fixed intervals, or it's some prediction based on a
historical query.  Having flexible historical analysis would be more
relevant to me than funny state machines for building future expense
events based on my out-of-thin-air estimates.

b.g.