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1 Three Tips for Organizing Your Receipts and Expenses Online
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2 Your Two Cents: Do You Always Take Your Receipt?
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3 Do You Check Grocery Receipts For Errors?
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4 Target to Pay $1.7 Million For Over-Charging Customers
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5 Do You Have an Overstuffed Wallet?
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6 I'm Asking: How Do You Stash Your Receipts?
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7 Savvy Community Tip: Always Double Check Your Invoices
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8 What Do You Think of Paperless Receipts?
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9 Savvy Tip: Track Your Spending by Collecting Receipts
There are plenty of ways (and apps) to help you track your finances, but for those who aren't exactly tech-savvy — or who simply can't sit still long enough to manually enter each and every purchase — collecting receipts can be a great, hassle-free money management technique. Here's how it works: When you receive a receipt, place it in a small coin purse that you can transfer into whichever Read more
Receipts, just like bills, are heading towards the paperless route. Many retailer giants, like Whole Foods Market, Nordstrom, Gap Inc., are sending customers digital receipts, and it's a trend that's catching on. The pros to getting electronic versions of receipts include having less clutter and being able to search and organize your receipts with ease on computers. It is also obviously more Read more
I'm always finding great tips in our community groups, and my latest favorite comes from Colbie in the How Do You Save group: So I know it sounds like such a simple tip but really it does make a difference! I recently moved and had hired a moving company. After a long day, I signed and paid for an invoice that seemed reasonable enough for me. Well, later I went back and realized that moving Read more
Like most SavvySugar readers, I take a receipt when it's offered to me. I figure if the cashier has already printed it, I might as well keep it. They stack up quick and for all my years of spending, I still haven't come up with an organized archiving system. Logging receipts by category is an effective tool for better managing your budget, but it requires careful spreadsheet or envelope work. Read more
Any Seinfeld fan surely remembers George Costanza's ridiculously overstuffed wallet that was bursting with receipts going back to who knows what year. I hope your wallet isn't as full as George's, but could yours use a healthy session of cleaning out receipts and buy-nine-get-the-tenth-sandwich-free cards? Do You Have an Overstuffed Wallet? Yes No Read more
Weights and measures inspectors from Northern California discovered that Target repeatedly charged customers with higher prices than the listed prices, and as punishment Target must pay a $1.7 million civil penalty. Sonoma County District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua remarked, "Customers should not have to worry about being charged the correct price. We believe the settlement sends a Read more
It's an automatic reaction to dissect receipts for more big-ticket items or when our shopping trips are limited to a few items. When we make serious grocery store runs, involving dozens of items, it might seem like more of a hassle to scan through the receipt for errors, and besides we watch every item as it properly scans, right? Checking the receipt on the spot may be out of the question with Read more
Now that online banking allows us to easily track every purchase we make with our debit cards, cashiers at some places like coffee shops ask whether or not we want our receipt when we've made a debit purchase. There are some people who only use debit cards to simplify the process of tracking expenses, but if you're charged incorrectly and didn't take a receipt you won't have any argumentative Read more
As we spend money we inevitably collect a messy paper trail of bills, transactions and receipts. Consequently, keeping your receipts orderly and wallet clean is a never ending challenge. If you're looking to organize your finances you should check out some of the online services that help keep track of your spending and receipts. The options vary per service but a combination of any program Read more
Nutricate, a new company, has developed technology that prints the nutritional information of your purchased meal right on the receipt. The way I see it, it could go two ways: the new receipts may make some of us feel horrible that we just purchased a meal that has 1,000 calories while others can feel overjoyed with how many calories they are saving by simply saying, "Hold the mayo." I could see Read more
