Shoeboxed.com

   Lurking in and around my house, there is a most heinous form of pulp vermin. On my hard drive there is a folder , appropriately named "receipts", that holds PDF copies of the email receipts contained in another folder inside my mail app. In my TV cabinet, I have a drawer the size of a microwave full of 2007 receipts as well. The thought of even thinking about approaching these nests of rapidly- fading thermal-printed mayhem is so intimidating that I have been practicing the fine art of avoidance and denial.

During a particular tough practice session, I googled "best way to organize receipts" hoping to run across a magic wand that would paste up, organize, and mutate this scandalous evidence of my lifestyle into tax information.

Wow. I found one.

Shoeboxed.com

They will scan, organize, classify any receipt you shove in the  monthly prepaid envelope. They will upload all that information into your online account. You then download all that information as a Quicken or Excel file. The best part, they will mail all those receipts back to you along with the next monthly prepaid envelope. All for $19.95 a month. ($9.95 for the first month)

 

If that is not enough, Shoebox  gives you an email address for you to use  for those pesky email receipts you get from online retailers- like those that reside in many many backup folders in and around my hard drive.

I only wish they had thought of this last January. I wouldn’t be watching "The Wire" full of dread and guilt.