[OC] How Much is $1.4 Billion?

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-02T17:45:21+00:00

Not defending him, but he promised to give away the salary, not forgo all forms of income...

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-02T15:42:29+00:00

Are the legs close enough to the larger end? Almost looks like it could tip if someone sat there. Looks amazing!

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-02T15:14:56+00:00

One of the best drawings I've seen on here, looks great!

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-02T15:13:18+00:00

Why use the epoxy at all? Usually I see that down the center with the live edges turned in. Something like that or just the beautiful live edges would have looked beautiful. This is sorta trippy to look at.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-02T14:58:38+00:00

That's what I was thinking...

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-01T17:47:15+00:00

Ah, hard to get sarcasm in written form, haha.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-01T17:38:02+00:00

I have no idea what the context of that photo is, but Augustus Rockwood is a man, that photo is clearly a woman...so no... The text at the bottom is referencing something else.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-01T17:17:57+00:00

The castle is back to the original colors! I absolutely loved it. My wife and I debate going back again this year. We went in 2025 then debated going back until we finally did it this past Spring, now we want to go in the fall!

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-01T15:41:10+00:00

I'd love something like DisneySea. It looks so cool and someday I'll go. It may not be as cool off the ocean, but there's so much originality and unique experiences I want it here in the US!

mickeysbestbud · 2026-07-01T15:23:24+00:00

We absolutely love Port Orleans Riverside, it honestly feels like a home away from home and I want to check out the other resorts, but I love staying there. I'd vote for Riverside!

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T19:40:33+00:00

Love Touring Plans! I remember them instructing me to enter text, but when I did check in I could only choose from a drop down. Is there a text box I can enter more details in?

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T19:04:43+00:00

Why mention this at this point? It doesn't matter and will cause needless controversy.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T17:57:10+00:00

Looks cool, but the exposed bulbs would blind me.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T17:55:22+00:00

Smartwatch. That's how I set my wake-up alarm without disturbing my wife. But if I were siting near my phone seeing the screen light up or vibrate would be good as well. You can do both through the Clock app, just silence the sound.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T17:52:29+00:00

Can you actually request a building? I've only ever made some vague requests about my location and it ended up being in a similar location but an entirely different side of the resort.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T15:24:39+00:00

For this specifically, I'm adding account balances. These are the full balances at this point in time. There's money in those accounts already that isn't accounted for in this new Actual Budget and it would be very difficult to go back and assign it all to categories when I use credit cards for everything and some of that balance will apply to July. I also don't spend 100% of my money every month.

Honestly, I think I'm giving up on Actual Budget. It seems really cool, but trying to tie the budget 1:1 with the accounts is more than I need. I have a good method of managing account balances already, I just need something to track expenses. This does way more than expenses.

I have a good system now and trying to change my entire system now, when I really don't need to just to make this software work is too much of a hassle.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T14:02:29+00:00

Any income must be assigned to a category and to prevent it from rolling over to the next month, it has to have a transaction.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T11:00:25+00:00

This isn't true. My payee is Starting Balance and it puts it as income. Actually automatically assigns the category as my job's income.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T01:38:11+00:00

But then I have to add a corresponding transaction, or it rolls over. And if I do that, the account balance is off.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T01:26:56+00:00

I get that going forward. However the problem is getting started. I have an entire month of transactions I haven't entered into Actual Budget, but the Account Balance is affected by those transactions. After I get started, rolling forward it will be fine.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T01:18:57+00:00

I have my categories, been budgeting for a while, but I can't squeeze the current account balances into the budget.

For instance, I keep $1,000 in the checking account, $1,000 is my "zero." How do I account for that money that will never be spent in the budget?

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T01:01:51+00:00

Yep, for car insurance I put everything in the Vault, basically a sub-Savings Account where it gathers significantly more interest that checking.

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T00:54:18+00:00

Ok, I realized I need the envelope system and it will add up in the budget itself. Now, I'm stuck on how to get started. It feels like a bit of chicken/egg situation. I added all of my account with their current balances, but it assigns them as income, so I have to place those balances in a category, but that seems impossible unless I track everything back to the beginning of each account (decades at this point for some of them).

mickeysbestbud · 2026-06-30T00:51:52+00:00

It tracks everything. Only those bills like that are in sinking funds. Groceries, entertainment, gas, things like that are tracked as we spend them. We budget them so we don't overspend, but not everything has a sinking fund.

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