Can someone please tell me

when using a sinking fund for items that do not happen monthly, when you do use those funds, do you add them as an income item that month and then enter the expense in the category?
I have always been perplexed how to account for those sinking funds when the item has to be paid for. Funds are typically moved from Savings account into checking account. I am wondering if I could be recording both the incoming transfer from saving as “Income” and the “Expense” of the item when I write the check.

I hope this made sense…..lol

I’ve pushed back on lots of stuff and

I’m pleasantly surprised at how much people respect that. Asking the doctor or the vet “and how much will that cost,” for example…

When I am asked to buy some crap I don’t need so that some charity can get 7% of it, if I’m interested in helping out, I’ve gotten to where I’ll just say, “I don’t want that, can I just donate $10 to your school and they can have ALL of it?”

The last school my daughter attended, the administration heard all the complaints from parents about getting nickelled and dimed to death, so they banned all such fundraisers and asked all parents to make a once-a-year donation as a tradeoff. The parents happily snapped it up…