Rounding Up Receipts and Warranties
Keeping track of receipts and other paperwork for household purchases can be a headache, but it's worth the effort if you need to return an item or to contact the manufacturer. Here are some filing ideas.
- Check receipts when you buy an expensive item; make sure the receipt clearly states what it is and when and where it was brought. Write on the receipt any information that is not clear, for future reference. Staple warranties and guarantees to the receipts.
- Buy an accordion file at an office supply store; they're available with tabs for alphabetical organization. Place the file in a convenient location, such as your desk
or in the kitchen.
- Annual sweep At the end of each calendar year, look through the entire file and discard what you can.
- Use ring binders to make it easier
to keep track of booklets and papers too useful to throw out but often difficult to find. Label the binders and keep them on a shelf in your home office or in another convenient place. As you pay bills and acquire owner's manuals, instructions, and store contracts, punch holes in those you need to save and slip them into the various labeled binders. Use tabbed dividers in different colors, available at office supply stores, to separate categories. The books' contents will be easy to retrieve and peruse.
- Labeled freezer bags, which are see-through and dust-proof, make ideal containers for miscellaneous items like disks, manuals, and warranties related to computers.
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