# Pot for lunch/ coffee

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207>\
**Category:** Feedback & Ideas\
**Created:** [18 September 2019 23:03 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207 "2019-09-18T23:03:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SirLucealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@SirLucealot](https://community.monzo.com/u/SirLucealot)\
**Post date:** [18 September 2019 23:03 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207/1 "2019-09-18T23:03:53Z")

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I always overspend on lunch and buying coffee. Is there a way you could make specific pots to track this and look at the budget?

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**Author:** ![JonnyOnAir](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/jonnyonair/32/72948_2.png) [@JonnyOnAir](https://community.monzo.com/u/JonnyOnAir)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2019 06:12 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207/2 "2019-09-19T06:12:12Z")

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Suppose you could make a pot for it. Say you want to spend £100 a month in total on lunch/coffee… schedule so that £25 is transferred to your current account each week as your allowance. That way, you’ll never overspend?

Maybe use the categorising tool for marking those payments as food or something and review at the end of the month?

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**Author:** ![anon99402360](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@anon99402360](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon99402360)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2019 06:37 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207/3 "2019-09-19T06:37:07Z")

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Think the only way would be to tag #coffee everytime you have one. Then use the search function to find them.

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**Author:** ![gmclean](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/gmclean/32/47932_2.png) [@gmclean](https://community.monzo.com/u/gmclean)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2019 07:10 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207/4 "2019-09-19T07:10:54Z")

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I started adding tags #lunch and #coffee to those transactions for a couple of weeks (my spending patterns are pretty static for these things) and then searched for each tag. Easily see how much you spend on either/both.

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**Author:** ![awjdean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@awjdean](https://community.monzo.com/u/awjdean)\
**Post date:** [26 September 2019 20:47 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/pot-for-lunch-coffee/80207/5 "2019-09-26T20:47:41Z")

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> [@SirLucealot](#):
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> I always overspend on lunch and buying coffee. Is there a way you could make specific pots to track this and look at the budget

It sounds like you want to create budget categories for Lunch and for Coffee. You can vote for custom categories here:

> [@white\_check\_mark Custom Category Creation](https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-category-creation/45899):
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> Hey, I’ve merged a number of custom category threads here arrow_down Keeping all the chatter in one place is generally best but on second thought this was a challenging merge and maybe I should have left it well alone no_good_man persevere Continue the discussion below as usual slight_smile