Monday, June 30, 2008

Money Monday - Receipts


I have a thing with trying to keep all of my receipts. Unfortunately, I don't have a thing with organizing all of my receipts.

What do you do with receipts? Do you keep them? Throw them? Store them?

Help!!

6 comments:

mollyfrog said...

For store receipts and stuff, I bought a little plastic container from Walmart. I think it holds 3X5 notecards. I write the date bigger at the top of the receipt, and then I put it behind the other ones. They stay in order for the most part. This is for regular receipts. I don't really have a specific way to store receipts of things I might need to return, I just look through the receipts in my box. I don't have a lot of things to return though.

Anonymous said...

Since we use Quicken for financial records, I save every receipt for logging and then save them with the appropriate year's financial records for several years. Overkill, I know, but that's the way I am!

Anonymous said...

I buy a check file (those 13-pocket plastic filing things, bigger than the coupon size) and use one slot per month. That way I have each year's receipts organized, by month.

Triplets08 said...

There is a product called "neat receipts" you can buy and you scan all your receipts into the program and organize it on your computer.

Vickie said...

I shove mine in a big freezer bag with the year written on it with a sharpie.

Anonymous said...

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