Receipts: Keep Em Or Throw Em?
Kendra Thinks Saving Receipts Is Hogwash, Too
I don’t know why I do it, but I do. Collect them deng grocery receipts, that is.
I started the habit because my mom taught me that it’s important to keep the receipts of things we purchased when I moved into my first dorm when I was 13. Straight out of elementary, I passed and was allowed to try going to school in Philippine Science High School – Diliman. So when we bought my things for the dorm, my mom would painstakingly collect all the receipts and make sure that everything’s there. Aside from tracking whether the things we bought were complete and hauled off to the dorm, the receipts served as her tracker for her budget. Moving in to a new place is not cheap. We bought everything from my mattress down to my electric fan. Thus the reason why she may have needed to make sure that we weren’t overspending.
Since that example set in the balmy, beautiful Philippine Science High School dormitory, I’ve collected my receipts since. From money transfers to grocery receipts I have them all, dumped in boxes, brown paper bags, or even plastic bags.
But sometime early this year, I figured out I was just collecting CLUTTER. Those receipts never really got double-checked beyond 15 minutes after getting home. Those receipts were never really used to track my budget. Instead, they just cluttered up my room. They added to my trash.
The money transfer receipts, I needed to keep, yes. But the grocery receipts, what’s the point? I spend the same way, anyway. It doesn’t make any sense to obsessively, even manically keep track of my expenses when, after certain periods of lack, I’ve learned how to spend only what’s enough for the day?
But I still kept my receipts. They’re there, in case I need them. I aim to throw them out every year-end. Sounds sensible, no?
Photo Credits: My 10 Online — Saving and Organizing Your Receipts
