? about receipts

[allinatiz]

Hi all.

Just wondered how you all keep your reciepts and outgoings. Do you have a book that you note down all outgoings that you don't have reciepts for and keep the reciepts with this? Do you record everything daily? weekly?

Would it be ok if I keep my reciepts for the month in an labelled envelope, stapled to the page of my reciepts diary thingy that I have recorded my outgoings on?

Do these questions make sense?

[ajs]

yes it would be ok and no i don't keep a record of my outgoings particularly but i do keep every receipt whether it's for work or not and what'sd more they are all over my house.
mandy x

[sarahnev707]

I put receipts in an old ice cream box along with scraps of paper saying what I've spent at car boot sales and ebay print offs etc. Then once a month, I go through, write them down and throw away (sorry - recycle!) everything under £10

I also go through bills as they come in and try not to forget to check visa bills for childminding spending

I staple what's left together and put them back in the bottom of the ice cream box to be ignored until April when they go in an envelope filed with all the other gumf

I then usually lose at least one important receipt, am totally unable to find which month it got filed with, end up removing all the staples, break a nail and get cross (usually in about February)

Sarahx

[susi513]

ajs SNAP!

My system is a box file for current year with 12 plastic pockets so receipts are filed by month. But I can never find the blasted folder when I need it so I keep starting up new envelopes/folders of receipts. Which is why when I did my last accounts I found 3 & 4 year old receipts! I've ordered a new cupboard for the playroom which I pray will house all the current files which are currently on pc desk, under pc desk, on top of filing cabinet, on top of freezer etc.

I did have a hardbacked notebook in which I was writing all the outgoings but that failed miserably cos I would fill it in for about a week at a time before forgetting or not finding it for another month or so.

[beckycoop]

I have an excel worksheet that I fill in weekly as I spend, it then adds it up for me. I then keep the receipts in a folder, labled monthly and stapled together.

It seems to work well for me. I used to have an online business before I started childminding so I am used to doing simple accounts.
Dont really want to spend weeks sorting them all out at the end of the tax year....

Becky

[jo]

I've got a plastic wallet for each month. I did one for start up costs but my monthly ones are bare no mindees yet boo hoo!!!

[buildingblocks]

I keep my receipts in an envelope with the date of each week beginning on e.g. Monday 15th October. Any thing I don't have a receipt for then I write on a piece of paper and put that in the envelope with the date I bought it on

Then at the end of each week I do my accounts and put in bills etc (okay that bits a lie but I do it in my head - I usually spend the week between Christmas and New Year getting them up to date while hubby is at work lol - but one year I will be organised and do it each week)

But by outting everything in an envelope it does make doing my accounts twice a year a lot easier than it would be.

love Kate