Change the 'Family' Category

[jfalcon]

Hi!

I tag household purchases under ‘Family’ - avoiding ‘Shopping’ getting a little too high every month. The logo is already a house and appears to be made for household purchases in general.

Could we rename ‘Family’ to ‘Home’ at all? Just outward thinking.

[Rat_au_van (Em)]

But I use it for things for the kids, presents for the family and pets. Wouldn’t make sense if it was called home. I use general for stuff for the house

[gmclean]

I use it for things related to my family too, parents, niece, sister, partner, etc.

If you are ‘avoiding Shopping getting a little too high every month’ wouldn’t it be easier to adjust that category budget to be realistic? Or am I missing something?

[jfalcon]

I was thinking more along the lines of not everybody having a family, but a household. So kids, pets, improvements, furniture etc. could come under ‘Home’ or ‘Household’

My spending is fine… but I just thought to myself when buying dishwasher salt that it was a ‘Home’ transaction, rather than ‘Shopping’ - and subsequently put it under ‘Family’ despite being a city flat sharer with no family.

[nathanthomson8 (Nathan)]

I think in general every monzo user will manipulate a category in a similar manner unfortunately.

I personally use “Expenses” for my girlfriend for example

More categories or custom categories is something that will be looked at down the line apparently… In the meantime I recommend that if this is a bugbear for you that you add your voice to the exsiting thread on this so we can show monzo this is a bigger annoyance for many than they think

If youd be happy with this we can maybe get your thread merged with the others?

[anon99402360]

@jfalcon

but I just thought to myself when buying dishwasher salt that it was a ‘Home’ transaction, rather than ‘Shopping

I’d probably categorise this under groceries to be honest.

I like the suggestion of a home category though or even Family & Home

[anon72173902]

I use for family things as well, shopping is shopping

Monzo could just let us add custom categories but well

[awjdean]

@jfalcon

Could we rename ‘Family’ to ‘Home’ at all? Just outward thinking.

I think changing “Bills” to “Household” (or “Home”) and then having a “Committed Spend” toggle would work better:

Toggle for Expenses and Holiday categories

“Committed Spend” toggle A “Committed Spend” toggle could potentially also be useful as a replacement for the “Bills” category, which would be renamed as the “Household” category. Creating a “Committed Spend” toggle and renaming the “Bills” category as the “Household” category would have the following benefits: Simpler and easier categorisation of stuff like a Netflix subscription, which is both “Bills” and “Entertainment”. Provides the previously requested “Household” category, which…

[greganddorne (Greg)]

@jfalcon

Hi!

I tag household purchases under ‘Family’ - avoiding ‘Shopping’ getting a little too high every month. The logo is already a house and appears to be made for household purchases in general.

Could we rename ‘Family’ to ‘Home’ at all? Just outward thinking.

I usr it the same way

[BethS]

Then where do I put my pet expenses?

[le6o]

I use the family “house” icon category for home and household things too

And the personal care “heart” icon category for family and pets

Actual personal care expenses just go into groceries as I use this for mixed supermarket shopping.

[gmclean]

I use the Family categories whenever I buy coffee. I use the Groceries category for petrol. I use the Eating Out category for when I send money to friends, I use the Shopping category for all the money I move to my savings.

Or at least, I may as well because without custom categories this discussion will never end.