Are you using Essential Register? If so, you really sound like a candidate
for Advanced Register. With Advanced Register, you'd have a credit card
account where your charged the Healthcare:Gym Clothes. Then you'd Transfer
money from your checking account to the credit card account to pay the
balance. The beauty of Transfer is it's not spending. There'd be no need for
the Healthcare:Gym Clothes to get in the checking. Indeed, it wouldn't
matter what account it was in because you can look at income and expenses
holistically and filter out the information about money flow between
accounts that doesn't make you richer (income) or poorer (expense). There's
also no need to budget for Credit Card:Capital One--you can use the cash
flow planning tools to make sure you have money to send their way when you
need to but you can make sure that the balance you run up is within your
budget when you run it up, not when you have to pay it back.

"Mike" <francisco9[at]att.net> wrote in message
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The initial expense to the category "Healthcare.Gym clothes" must be entered
by you in the Credit Card account as a "charge" so this account will balance
out for this purchase (as a result of your payment from the check register).



"Mike" <francisco9[at]att.net> wrote in message
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Hello!

RE: MS Money 2006

Among several others, I have TWO budget categories: (and
sub-categories)......

1 Credit Cards:Capital One AND 2 Healthcare:Gym
Clothes

I bought a pair of running shoes for $50. on my Credit Card. When the
bill came in, I PAID the $50. and I posted the $50.in my MS Money
Check Register, with the category - Credit Card:Capital One $50.

But, how do ALSO I get the running shoes onto my check register also,
with the proper category and subcategory - Healthcare:Gym Clothes?

Every step of the way is an adventure, but it's FUN!!

Thanks very much for all the help I've been getting

mIke