That’s It! I Give Up With Trying to Catch Up

I am so far behind with so many things right now. I give up. There is no possible way I can catch up and keep my sanity.

Probably the biggest problem is my financial files for the year. They are in shambles. I normally keep ALL of my receipts and file them nicely in little divided organizers. It’s in my nature to want to do this. Well, I confessed a while ago that this year has went down the drain in terms of keeping things organized. My solution…throw all of the older receipts away except for the ones I may need to return items. So far tonight I have divided the receipts up into a keep and a toss/shred pile.

As for the other files that I am going to keep, I am just going to mark a box with “2006″ and toss everything in there. If I happen to have a rainy day I can go through it. I’m not going to try to beat myself up trying to make it happen now.

I’m not sure how to proceed with my financial files for 2007. I am thinking about possibly going electronic. I have a decent scanner and my computer can print to .pdf so that is an option.

Wow. Just writing what I am about to do made me feel better. Now I better put my plan into action

Oh, I did find the receipts I needed so I can get November’s income and expense report done. I’ll post it tomorrow

Posted by Tricia on December 19, 2006 at 8:40 PM in Confessions, Life Experiences | 5 Comments »
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D responded:
Posted: December 20th, 2006 at 6:58 am
I PDF everything. This too takes time. Although, when the work is complete, it is a breeze to maintain and find things. Space is not an issue.
Matt responded:
Posted: December 20th, 2006 at 10:30 am
I keep my reciepts until I can log them into excel then I simply toss them. I only keep the receipts on things that I might need to return. Scanning and PDFing items is a pretty good idea too.
reggie responded:
Posted: December 21st, 2006 at 4:37 pm
At the office we have a hi-speed scanner with a ADF (automatic document feeder)
every month i take my docs with me and run them thru the scanner, and file them directly into quicken with the payments.

Most of my utility bills, i can get only aready in digital format, which makes it much easier.

I use to use my home scanner for scanning, but when u fall back to over 10 pages to scan, laziness kicks in, and u can never find the time to do it, or some better excuse why not to do it.

But since i most everything digital with 200+ backups, at home, at the office, on a usb drive, on a friends’s server (password protected)
I decided it’s time to clean up the filing cabinet, and send all those statements to the schredder.

keep up the blogging tracia
i do enjoy reading
paper shredders responded:
Posted: February 15th, 2007 at 1:56 am
I have a decent scanner and my computer can print to .pdf so that is an option.
hairy responded:
Posted: June 10th, 2008 at 12:02 am
ya rite but some times its not work yaar. Give me some more info