Receipt archaeology

Carmen came over to help me sort through my tax stuff, which was optimistic of both of us. Turns out keeping receipts in three different shoe boxes and a random kitchen drawer isn’t actually an organizational system.

Receipt archaeology

We’ve been at this for two hours and I think we’ve successfully categorized maybe half of it. The other half includes things like a gym membership receipt from 2008 (expired), coffee receipts I can’t remember if they were business meetings or just Tuesday mornings, and something that might be from a gas station or might be from Mars.

The receipt for that coffee from six months ago that I swore was business-related.

Carmen keeps asking very reasonable questions like “Why do you have a receipt for dog food when you don’t have a dog?” and I keep giving very unreasonable answers like “Emergency preparedness?” This is why I usually just pay someone else to do this.

At least we found my W-2 though. It was being used as a bookmark in my anatomy textbook, naturally.