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authorJohn Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>2009-10-25 23:08:07 -0400
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+\f0\fs28 \cf0 Something that stops many people from keeping a ledger at all is the\
+insanity of tracking small cash expenses. They rarely generate a\
+receipt, and there are often a lot of small postings, rather than\
+a few large ones, as with checks.\
+\
+One solution is: don't bother. Move your spending to a debit card,\
+but in general ignore cash. Once you withdraw it from the ATM, mark\
+it as already spent to an @samp\{Expenses:Cash\} category:\
+\
+@smallexample\
+2004/03/15 ATM\
+ Expenses:Cash $100.00\
+ Assets:Checking\
+@end smallexample\
+\
+If at some point you make a large cash expense that you want to track,\
+just ``move'' the amount of the expense from @samp\{Expenses:Cash\} into\
+the target account:\
+\
+@smallexample\
+2004/03/20 Somebody\
+ Expenses:Food $65.00\
+ Expenses:Cash\
+@end smallexample\
+\
+This way, you can still track large cash expenses, while ignoring all\
+of the smaller ones.} \ No newline at end of file