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A Simple Receipt Hack: The Self-Purging System
Ever find yourself saying, “Jeez, I wish I kept the receipt”? We’ve all been there. Receipts can be one of those little life annoyances—you need them for a return, proof of mailing, or expense-tracking… but nine times out of ten, you don’t.
For a while, I tried keeping them all in a box, but that just turned into a messy archive of paper I never looked at again. What I really wanted was a system that practically took care of itself—keeping recent receipts handy, while automatically clearing out the old ones.
Here’s the solution I landed on: a simple 4-drawer plastic organizer. Nothing fancy, just the kind you can get almost anywhere. Then, label the drawers like this:
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Drawer 1: Jan – May – Sep
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Drawer 2: Feb – Jun – Oct
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Drawer 3: Mar – Jul – Nov
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Drawer 4: Apr – Aug – Dec
Here’s how it works:
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If it’s January, every receipt from that month goes in Drawer 1.
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February receipts go into Drawer 2, March into Drawer 3… and so on.
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By the time May rolls around, it’s Drawer 1’s turn again. At that point, you just empty all the old receipts and start fresh with May.
It’s a neat little cycle—each drawer only ever holds receipts that are up to 4 months old. That’s long enough to cover returns, warranty questions, or tracking a lost package, but not so long that you’re drowning in scrap paper.
In the end, you get a system that’s:
✅ Low effort
✅ Self-purging
✅ Always up to date
