Do you take a receipt everywhere you go? Ie gas station, local store?
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Anonymous
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I do, to reconcile my checkbook
. Everyone I know, doesn’t take them- @save paper.” |
Anonymous
| No. I wouldnt do anything with them so it would be a complete waste of paper for me. |
Anonymous
| No. Why would I do that? |
Anonymous
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What bother? If I can see a digital receipt, I prefer it. I only take them when I need itemized receipt and there’s not a digital offered.
Do you actually still use a checkbook and write checks? |
Anonymous
| Not unless I’m expensing it for work. |
Anonymous
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Mom, is that you?
My mom said she does this, and she line by line compares charges to receipts. |
Anonymous
| What? |
Anonymous
| My Dad does...and checks each against his visa statement. I do not. |
Anonymous
Same here. |
Anonymous
| No. I'm white. Also, checkbook? I use mine about once a year for a wedding but otherwise never. |
Anonymous
| No. If I’m handed one, I toss it in the trash on my way out of the store. I have more things to manage than I can handle as it is. |
Anonymous
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Okay, I do this at gas stations. I print out the receipts and keep them in chronological order in my car. I'm irritated when the printer in the gas pump doesn't work. I'm doubly irritated when the little screen on the gas pump tells me that I have to go see the cashier to get the receipt. Unless I'm on a road trip, I don't buy gas more than once a month. Sometimes, I can go two months without a trip to the gas station. I don't have a ton of receipts, but I have a nice healthy stack. (Two stacks, actually.)
Why do I keep them? Well, those little stacks of receipts tell a story. Where have I been? How much did gas cost a year ago? Fifteen years ago? Well, I can tell you. On May 23, 2009, I picked up a car that I purchased on eBay. The seller handed me the car key at a Shell gas station in Coppell, Texas, and I promptly filled the tank for twenty dollars at $2.39/gallon. The final time I filled the tank of that car was September 14, 2019, at a Sunoco station in Arlington, Virginia; $2.45/gallon. What was happening in the world on August 24, 2013? Gas at a Shell station in Alexandria was a whopping $3.69/gallon! On my annual drive to Florida on January 17, 2015, gas was a delightful $1.85/gallon at a Shell station in Hardeeville, North Carolina. I bought my current car on November 9, 2019, and filled the tank at the APlus at a Newark, Delaware rest stop. The receipt for that purchase was the first in a new stack of receipts that sits in the center console of my car. Remember receipts from United States Postal Service Money Orders? Yes, I keep those too. The very first item I purchased on eBay was a laptop computer for $230.00 on February 15, 1998, that I bought from a trustworthy woman in Knoxville, Tennessee. |
Anonymous
My credit/debit cards text me each transaction. I compare on the fly. |
Anonymous
Relevance? |
Anonymous
| Checkbook? What? |