I haven’t done this myself so take it with a grain of salt but you could have a generic vacation category that you then move some of that money into the your normal “food” category when it comes time to take the trip. You’d leave some money in the travel category to cover transportation/accommodations since normally that’s just 2 transactions or so.
Though for myself I’d just spend from the travel category since for most of my travel the flight/hotel is paid ahead of time so once I get to the destination anything left in the travel category is fair game.
One more idea if you are saving for multiple trips is to have a generic travel category and then a “current trip” category that you move the appropriate amount of money into from the main travel category when you are about to embark.
All that said I have a number of hidden categories like for things I saved for then hid once I had bought. You could do the same with your handful of travel-related categories and just un-hide as needed. I don’t ever think or worry about my hidden categories.
I haven’t done this myself so take it with a grain of salt but you could have a generic vacation category that you then move some of that money into the your normal “food” category when it comes time to take the trip. You’d leave some money in the travel category to cover transportation/accommodations since normally that’s just 2 transactions or so.
Though for myself I’d just spend from the travel category since for most of my travel the flight/hotel is paid ahead of time so once I get to the destination anything left in the travel category is fair game.
One more idea if you are saving for multiple trips is to have a generic travel category and then a “current trip” category that you move the appropriate amount of money into from the main travel category when you are about to embark.
All that said I have a number of hidden categories like for things I saved for then hid once I had bought. You could do the same with your handful of travel-related categories and just un-hide as needed. I don’t ever think or worry about my hidden categories.