<title>Learn why to exclude something from your lifetime plan</title>
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<klink type="cncpt">Tell me why I would exclude something from my lifetime plan</klink>
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<p>Part of planning is being able to see how different events will affect your bottom line, so that you can make changes to your lifetime plan as needed. The Lifetime Planner makes it easy to set up as many potential events as you want, and then include only the ones that create the results you want.</p>
<p>Once you've excluded an event from your plan, there's no need to delete it completely<mdash/>you can just leave it there, and select the <emph>Exclude from Lifetime Plan</emph> check box.</p>
<p>There's a good reason to keep those possible events around, but excluded from your plan. If you excluded an event because, for instance, it didn't seem like you could afford it, you might want to include it again if your circumstances change. At that point, all you need to do is clear the <emph>Exclude from Lifetime Plan</emph> check box for the event, and Money will factor that event into your lifetime plan.</p>
<p variant="impt">Excluding an item automatically excludes other items associated with it. For example, if you exclude an account from your lifetime plan, Money also excludes contributions to that account.</p>