Advice for setting up house budget with roommates

[Patrick Clery]

Hi there,

Currently, my five roommates and myself are trying to setup a budget with 
Gnucash to keep track of our finances.

The way our home works is that whenever any one of us pays an expense for the 
house (bill, cleaning, supplies, etc.) then each of us will pay 1/6th of that 
expense, and the person who paid the bill is given is money back out of the 
house fund.

We want to keep track of who owes money, who is owed money, and when a person 
is paid back for an expense he purchases, but the problem is that with the 
systems we've come up with, it became overly complex and we had to 
redundantly enter the same expenses in several places.

What I would like to know is has anyone here setup a similar system for a 
shared living situation and could share how they did it? We have tried to set 
this up except it became redundant having to enter Can anyone recall of any 
similar examples of this in the mailing list archives?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
Patrick