By J. Money

And I haven’t even filed them yet! ;) I literally spent all weekend tracking down all my invoices and receipts and bank statements, etc etc etc. It was a mess. And after 8 hours I decided that it’ll never happen again, so I spent another 2-3 hours organizing and coming up with a better solution going forward in 2012 (though I am proud I got started on all this so early this year!).

It’s not the most innovative system in the world, but here it is:

Print off all invoices and online receipts AS SOON AS I GET THEM before archiving in Gmail. Plop them all in a folder in my desk, and move on. (I got one of those old school writing desks which have these huge deep drawers, so I put in a ghetto filing system so all I have to do is reach over to the printer to... More...