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I've struggled with Households and Individuals as well.

I currently use households but don't really like how it works. In my mind a Household should aggregate the donations of all individuals within that household. If Households did this then I think that would solve alot of issues.

For example:

Doe Household  --donated 200.00
-John Doe  --donated 100.00
-Jane Doe --donated 300.00


Under the Household Contributions tab you'd have listed 3 contributions (see attached image for example)

we also tend to steer clients away from HH - but think i found a use case where it made sense.

fairly off topic this one (who me? but you have been warned)

People can join an organisation as a 'family' - but this is not an inherited membership - it is a discounted rate for anyone under the same roof.

And when we pull up a member we need to see the membership status of all those 'under the same roof'

so our solution was to link the individuals to the household so we could go

- if we are interested in Person A
- grab their HH
- grab all people with Relationship X at the HH (which includes Person A)

not pretty but better than having all the individuals related to each other via lots of spaghetti

Yep sorry that wasn't a very helpful explanation - but like i said i was heading off topic - in our case we are using Views to be able to do this since it lets us join various ends of various relationships together.