One of the admirable things about The Wife is that she has this filing system for papers. Sometimes she can even find things in it; OK, I jest, because usually, she can. But her categories are not my categories, so I can almost NEVER find anything in her system.
She keeps receipts of almost everything she buys. If she needs it, she’ll pull out the folder for the year that purchased the item. This is of absolutely no use to me because, unless it was very recent, I can’t REMEMBER what year we bought something. Was it 2010 or 2009? Occasionally she can’t remember either.
Moreover, I get impatient wading through a year’s worth of random receipts. MY system, when I was single – still used for things that are mine, rather than hers or ours – is by type of items – appliances, pharmacy, food, and the like. She’s willing to rifle through her files, but I find it too arcane.
I do see one advantage of her system, though. When the contents of a folder are eight years old, she can toss it; not that she does, necessarily, but she could.
With my folders, I put the tabs in the back, while she puts them in the front, something that, for some reason, totally flummoxes me when looking in her files.
It’s usually the little stuff that drives people crazy. As long as I don’t actually have to FIND something in her files, it’s all good.
Happy birthday, honey.
You both are incredibly organized. My receipt filing system is more along the lines of “stuff it in my pockets until it reaches critical mass and then dump it.” Really important things I keep receipts for (computers, etc. of course), but if it’s less that $75, it’ll be gone within a month.
Happy birthday to your wife!
HA! Entrepreneur and I don’t “file” the same way either. Of course, MY way is totally better……. 🙂
And Happy Birth Day to Carol!! (Sorry, the fingers were faster than the brain.)
Happy birthday to Carol! Filing is very difficult. I am sure my husband had a system which was different from mine. Besides he never threw things away and I didn’t know which was so important that I should keep it, or which was just junkmail.
Thanks for your visit and kind comment. I hope ABC Wednesday will see many more rounds.
Wil, ABCW Team
Carol? A year older? I think not. However, YOU Roger are getting older, much older.