The last time I wrote about receipts was last year in “Making Sense of Receipts.” In that post, I talked about how to track and analyze your spending, as this was what my clients were saying was the reason why they were accumulating receipts. Since then, I have continued to encounter stacks and stacks of receipts at my clients’ homes, some of them years old. These clients haven’t claimed they were saving them for tracking. They were saving them because they…
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Last week, I wrote about which plastics we recycle in New York City. The bottom line is that the New York City Dept. of Sanitation only recycles plastic bottles and jugs (without the caps). So what should you do with the rest of the plastics? A couple of astute readers pointed out other options for recycling them.
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What do you do with your receipts after you bring them home? Several of my clients save them — piles and piles of them — so that they can analyze their spending patterns and better understand where their money goes. That’s a worthwhile endeavor. Unfortunately, saving them in piles does not shed any light on your spending patterns. It just creates clutter and causes you stress. It also makes it difficult to find an important receipt when you need it.
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