What is your easy filing system for store receipts?

Easy…... the shredder system…. insert, buzz, gone. :-/

Honestly, I have used the shoebox system for many years. I pay the bill, mark paid on the receipt, date paid and throw it in a shoebox with the year written on the top and sides.

It’s a rough system, but it works for me.

@john65pennington, @Scooby, what do you do with the cash register receipts, whether you actually paid cash, used debit or credit cards?

Garbage can. I’m going to assume that no one is interested in rooting around for my particular purchasing information. If someone is after that, it would be easier to get it from a store than from my house – and I can’t control what they do with it.

I use my credit card for almost all purchases and use all paper for fire starters.

My monthly online statement gives me all the info I need. Since I am not much of an impulse shopper, I remember my transactions.

I use cash only for ice cream cones or corn at the farm stand.

Toss ‘em in the top drawer of my night table and throw them away after 4 years.

On my receipts, I mark whether they were paid by cash, debit, credit or check.

After I leave a business, the first order is catchup my checkbook. If you do not, you will lose track of just one transaction and it will cost you an overdraft fee.

A fire place….

My grandfather used a long metal spike on a wooden base to impale them.

Okay, chalk this up to weird: I was doing a Fluther query on receipts, for a receipt question I had, and a commercial for this came up. Must be the full moon.

I keep them in envelopes, organised quarterly. My father has garbage bags full of them, not the most efficient system.