This morning, however, I realised that I am a collector. I know this, because I cleaned out my wallet. It wasn't closing anymore. It was bulging, the zipper straining.
I am a collector of receipts. Big ones, small ones, useful ones, useless ones, I have them all. About 45 of them in total this time around.
One day, they're going to be worth a lot of money. I just know it.
Do you, like me, put every receipt you're ever given straight into your wallet, and then carry them around for months? Or are you... sensible?
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Ye p that is me. Unless they are a gift and then I place the receipt in a drawer.
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Nope, I'm the opposite. I've cursed myself many a time for throwing out the important ones!
ReplyDeleteMy wallet bulges until I can no longer close it...at that point I move all the offending receipts into the "docket drawer" which is also so full that they spill out every time I open it! I'm pretty sure I need an intervention to deal with my receipt hoarding tendencies :)
ReplyDeleteI keep them too. Not sure why? I think I have the vague idea that I will match them to the bank statement to make sure that we aren't being ripped off. But sadly as the past few weeks have shown, receipt or not, someone can still hack your credit card account :(
ReplyDeleteMy wallet gets emptied as soon as I get home. Useless receipts are tossed in the bin, the ones I need to keep go in the concertina file according to category, medical, paid bills etc, loose change goes into a money tin. It's frustrating for me as a checkout chook, to see people searching through what appears to be a lifetimes worth of receipts looking for the coupon they want to use.
ReplyDeleteI get this from the OH. He can't close his wallet so then empties 3 months worth on my desk. Drives. Me. Nuts.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sensible at all. I need to empty my wallet yet again.
ReplyDeleteLOL, this made me laugh! I religiously keep every receipt (even the one for a single banana I bought and ate on the spot three months ago - like I could take it back if I needed to). I now have an old shoe box that I keep them all in. It has come in handy when things have broken but I would be pretty safe to say that the petrol I bought in 2003 wouldn't need to be returned any time soon.
ReplyDeleteOh yes!
ReplyDeleteOMG Al - you are my hubby. Not only does he 'collect' receipts, but he just shoves them in his wallet any old how. Can't stand it!!
ReplyDeleteMy sister is a collector of receipts...it's insanity.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bulging wallet girl myself and often loose receipts after they start spilling out of the wallet!
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