{"id":7,"date":"2011-11-01T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T21:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mysysltd.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2011-11-01T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T21:37:33","slug":"dealing-with-receipts-when-your-car-is-your-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"What to do with all those receipts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Receipts<\/a>It took me a long time to come up with a way of dealing with receipts that I could live with.\u00a0 Envelopes get too messy and bulky, and because the number of the number of categories I wanted, required too many.\u00a0 I tried putting them in a plastic bin when I came home at night but that was really just another way of procrastinating.<\/p>\n

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My solution – a letter sized coupon folder from an office supply store that’s properly categorized and kept in the car.\u00a0 Every time I get back in the car I file the one or two receipts I’ve acquired.\u00a0 At the end of the year I just put the entire folder in with my filing and start a new one.\u00a0 I’ve found that the folders with a stitched cloth edge are the most robust.<\/p>\n

File Categories<\/h3>\n

Auto Fuel<\/strong> receipts get filed right after the fill-up, I’m in the car after all.\u00a0 I try to make a habit of writing the odometer reading on the receipt.\u00a0 It helps as a cross check for my travel records.<\/p>\n

Auto Maintenance<\/strong> ditto for oil changes and other service work.<\/p>\n

Bank personal<\/strong> is for ATM slips or teller transaction slips.\u00a0 I usually purge these after I see them on the bank statement.<\/p>\n

Receipts – Personal<\/strong> are for things that I might have to return or will be needed for a warranty.<\/p>\n

Receipts –\u00a0Home<\/strong> are for items that contribute to the cost of running the home for tax purposes.<\/p>\n

Expenses<\/strong> are things that I bought with my own cash or credit that will be charged to the company.\u00a0This sections\u00a0is emptied regularly when they are attached to my weekly expense report.<\/p>\n

Receipts – Business<\/strong> are things that I’ve bought with company cash or bank card. Attaching them to the bank statement might be a good idea but I keep that electronically now.\u00a0 I actually have two accounts so there is a section for each bank account.<\/p>\n

Bank –\u00a0business<\/strong> is for ATM\u00a0and\u00a0teller deposit slips.\u00a0 I usually purge these after I see them on the bank statement.<\/p>\n

Credit Card- Business<\/strong>\u00a0is for slips on the Business owned\u00a0credit card.<\/p>\n

To File<\/strong>\u00a0 shouldn’t be here but sometimes I find I can’t avoid it, my wallet is full and I’m about to meet someone for lunch.\u00a0 Don’t want to avoid\u00a0paying my share just because my wallet is messy!\u00a0 No doubt that means that I haven’t planned my time well on those days but that will be more stuff I have to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took me a long time to come up with a way of dealing with receipts that I could live with.\u00a0 Envelopes get too messy and bulky, and because the number of the number of categories I wanted, required too many.\u00a0 I tried putting them in a plastic bin when I came home at night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}