How to reserver money?

[Robert Heller]

  Ralph van Etten <ralph at et10.org>,
  In a message on Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:50:13 +0100, wrote :

RvE> Hi,
RvE> 
RvE> How do you reserve money ? I couldn't find it in the archives and also I
RvE> don't know if 'reserving' is the proper term. Something like a virtual
RvE> bank account.
RvE> 
RvE> Like you want to reserve a certain amount of money each month to go out
RvE> for dinner. When enough money is 'reserved', it can be used for dinner.
RvE> 
RvE> I can make an account for this but when I transfer money to this account
RvE> from my bank account, the bank account isn't correct anymore because the
RvE> money only leaves the bank account when its used and not every month.

The bank account should *still* be correct, so long as you don't mark
the transactions to this 'virtual' account as 'cleared'.  When you do
go out for diner, you 'pay' for the diner from this 'virtual' account,
not from your 'real' bank account. Or something like that.

RvE> 
RvE> 
RvE> Thanks,
RvE> 
RvE> Ralph.
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