The Life of a Receipt
 

-Do you craft cute little origami figures?
-Do you create spit-balls?
-Do you throw them away in an angry huff?
-Do you carefully log all purchases on said item in a checkbook or other budgeting apparatus?


What do you do with YOUR receipts? Ya freak...


I eat them for the fiber. Don't judge me. Okay, fine. I log them.

If its lucky, it gets stapled with other lucky receipts from the same month. If it's unlucky, it hits the trash can.

I stopped collecting my receipts and organizing them into months. I guess I realized how dumb and useless it was. I love my money, therefore I always remember where it went.

I started keeping up with mine again after being slapped with three insufficient funds charges. It pays to keep up with my checkbook.

Though how you pay back money you already don't have will forever be beyond me.

They build up in my pocket until I clean 'em out. Then they end up on my floor. They're actually pretty handy for writing down shit--numbers, e-mail addresses, shopping lists, etc. I made a pretty nice paper crane not too long ago.

I put them all in a suitcase.

At the end of the year, I climb a tree and release them all into the wind.

Haha, I'm one paranoid little boy.
Every receipt that is a result of a debit or credit transaction, I rip into little little pieces and make sure that they unreadable to anybody who would want to search through the garbage and piece it together again. A paper shreeder wouldn't suffice since anyone with enough inclination could piece it back together. My receipts have to be incomprehensible and beyond. Sometimes I add water as a finishing touch.

For cash receipts...sometimes I do the same thing, all the while picturing someone piecing it together only to have wasted their time.

My friend can make elaborate paper boats with many creases out of receipts somehow, but won't tell me how.

I save them in my wallet to keep track of how much money I've spent.
I like to keep them just so I have them in case I need to return something. My mom immedietely throws her receipts away and I've been screwed over a few times because of that, so I make sure to keep 'em all.

Most of my receipts start off life on my desk, once I get fed up of not being able to find what I want on my desk I hide them all away in the cupboard next to my desk, I must have collected together at least a couple of years worth now.

I don't pay taxes, neither bother cauculating my monthly expences, so usualy they don't last past the store's exit door, if they get that far.

With food, I usually just toss them on the spot.

If it's a video game or something else, I usually just keep the receipt in the box it came in just for safe keeping and say to myself, "Damn? I bought it that long ago?"

I keep receipts for stuff that might have a chance of being returned, usually in a place near or connected to the item (like Chaotic, I like to keep my receipts for video games in their box). Sometimes I'll leave a receipt in my wallet only to find it five or six years later (I think I still have the receipt for my putter from, like, 10+ years ago).

The only receipts I bother keeping (aside from fairly large purchases) are the ones the self-checkout at the library doles out. They remind me when I need to get the books back, and they make a handy little bookmark.

I keep receipts until I'm sure the product is adequetely functional (ie. The CD/DVD/game/food/drink/cigs are satisfactory) and then trash it. I couldn't give a crap about shredding the damn things because I mostly can't be bothered, and to be honest no one would want to gain access to my bank account; it's practically empty so what would be the point?

The only receipts that I actively file away for safe keeping are from purchases made with my corporate expense credit card. Stuff like meals, hardware, or anything else I have need to purchase for work, I have to keep the receipts so that at the end of the month, when the bill comes in, I have record of my purchases and can justify them so my boss will approve them.

Most receipts end up crumpled in my pocket, where they stay until I get changed at night. I always check my pockets, so usually the result is me getting excited, thinking that the crumpled up receipt is money I didnt know I had. When I realize it was just a useless piece of paper, I angrily crumple it up again and throw it away.

Unless, like others have said, its for something that may get returned or may malfunction at some point. Then I find somewhere to keep it.

I keep important purchases in an envelope, the most recent in the back. After a while I clean them out (meaning, tear them up). Small stuff like the post office are just thrown on the spot.

Tip, make a poll next time please. Take advantage!

I throw the damned things away unless it's for something really expensive or something that has a good potential of breaking. Other than that, trash.

Haha, my mom does your last option. She stores away EVERYTHING.

Wow, I didn't even think about that. Oops. Oh well, next time.

I've discovered I have a particular hatred for excessively lengthy receipts. Why do receipts with one purchase on them have to be 50 yards long? (*cough* Office Max)

Receipts go into my wallet, and then into a small box when I get home for safe keeping. I keep receipts for a while, at least until after the return date.

They sit on top of my dresser or sit in the drawers until I get sick and tired of them and then throw them out.

I'm still amzaed at why I have a ToGo's receipt from five freakin years ago.

I usually only keep receipts that involve one of my cards. I never really look back at them, although I should probably start logging them into a program or something.