I hope I’m not beating a dead horse here, but just adding a little more clarity:
Credit cards and Accounts in Goodbudget work like mirror images of each other, since most people store money in accounts and owe money to credit cards. In your case, it sounds like you have a credit balance on your card which is awesome but also pretty rare! Rather than transferring money around or making fake transactions, I’d recommend that you adjust your credit card balance to $-8.66 to reflect the credit on that account (which it sounds like you did). That WILL add money to your Unallocated because it’s available to be spent now, so it’s essentially acting like a little checking account with a tiny balance. That money gets added to your regular cashflow and goes into the Unallocated pile.
Also remember that your envelopes will all essentially go to zero on the first day of your budget period if you have a Fill instruction to “Set” them (not “Add”) to the budgeted amount, and you don’t need to make any dummy transactions. (Clearly things that accumulate like your vacation envelope will need to remain in an “Add” instruction!) This will leave your Unallocated balance as the true remainder of your money in your bank accounts (and your credit balance!) minus the money used to fill the envelopes, which you can then do with what you please (e.g. add more to some envelopes, put it in Savings, or leave it as a buffer for unexpected expenses).
I hope that helps!
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