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Originally posted by OldChimney:
You could use Tags, setting up one for each of your items. This would allow you to subtotal reports by Tag.

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Using Savings Goals

Quicken’s Savings Goals feature helps you save money by “hiding” funds in an account. You set up a savings goal and make contributions to it using the Savings Goals window. Although the money never leaves the source bank account, it is deducted in the account register, thus reducing the account balance in Quicken. If you can’t see the money in your account, you’re less likely to spend it.

Kind of sounds silly, doesn’t it? Using Quicken to transfer money from your checking account to another account that doesn’t even exist?

But don’t laugh—the Savings Goals feature really works. A friend used a similar technique. She simply deducted $10 or $20 from her checking account balance, thus giving the illusion that she had less money in the account than was really there. This helped her save money by making her think twice about writing a check for something they really didn’t need. It prevented her from bouncing checks during the time when the needs of her growing family caused her to keep a dangerously low checking account balance. When her daughter graduated from high school, there was enough money in this “secret” account to pay for a new laptop as the girl went off to college!