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"Paperless Chase - How to Deal with Receipts"

This post was written by Ernie Svenson: "I started the quest to become completely paperless in 2000, and by 2005 I achieved my goal. Being paperless is as natural to me as swimming in water is to a fish. I'm a strong believer in the benefits of becoming paperless. We're all becoming paperless; some embrace it, while others have it foist upon them.

...One annoying kind of paper that most of us need to retrieve later is the paper receipt. I applaud companies like Apple, who offer paperless receipts delivered by email. Sadly, most places still provide customers with paper receipts. Even more sad: this is not likely to change soon.

I'm really good at scanning my documents so I don't have a problem keeping track of receipts. I don't have a special organization system for my receipts, other than that I scan them all to a folder called 'Receipts' and I name them with the date and a short description (e.g. '2010_08_25 parking receipt'). My system isn't really optimal for two reasons: (1) I'm not really segregating business receipts into their own folder, and (2) when I travel I have to make sure to keep track of awkward little pieces of paper to ensure that I have them when I return (at which point I have to spend time scanning them)..."

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Source: Ernie the Attorney, 30 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).