Does anybody else have a DH

[Michie]

that is receipt challenged? My DH couldn't make it home with a receipt if his life depended on it and please, no posts that he is trying to hide something It doesnt matter if it is gas, pizza, clothes, I take that back, he has never bought clothes since we have been married. Heck, even if we are together and he buys something, the receipt seems to vanish between the cash register and his hand.

 

[Tiggeroo]

dh and i used to have our own business. imagine the fights in my house over receipts that if missing could cost me a large amount of money. this is actually a big reason we don't have this business any more.

 

[SandraVB79]

I don't have a DH... not one that looses receipts and not one that keeps receipts...

 

[welovedisneyx4]

I wish! My DH is the complete opposite. He keeps every receipt that he gets. Even from Mcdonalds and stuff like that. He puts them in a shoe box in the closet and keeps them each year. He thinks we might need them for tax purposes??? Some of them, yes, I can see. But Mcdonalds or other trivial stuff?? I don't get it. However, for the sake of marital harmony, I pretty much go along w/ it. But I do think it is strange.

 

[ducklite]

Mine's actually just the opposite. He keeps receipts for milk. He keeps receipts for $1.18 for a few screws he bought at Home Depot. He keeps receipts for a Gatorade he buys at 7-11.



Anne

 

[Magickndm]

My husband keeps some reciepts, but never the important ones.
The car battery can be returned with a reciept, the Mountain Dew bought at the Lil' Champ, not so much. Guess which reciept we found when the battery died.

 

[Michie]

Mine's actually just the opposite. He keeps receipts for milk. He keeps receipts for $1.18 for a few screws he bought at Home Depot. He keeps receipts for a Gatorade he buys at 7-11.



Anne

But is he paying cash for those items? My DH does not like to carry more than 20 bucks, so I am talking receipts for items that he paid with his check card or a check Now, he just carries 1 check at a time and he never lifted his daily limit on his check card, which is a good thing

 

[ducklite]

But is he paying cash for those items? My DH does not like to carry more than 20 bucks, so I am talking receipts for items that he paid with his check card or a check Now, he just carries 1 check at a time and he never lifted his daily limit on his check card, which is a good thing

Usually cash for small purchases, but sometimes credit card. Never check or check card--at least not on the "house" account. He's got his own checking account that I don't care what he does with it. I put money in at the beginning of each month for his pocket cash and incidentals.

Anne

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

My DH is the same way. Can't save a receipt if his life depended on it. I do eventually find most of them smushed in little balls on the floor of the van though.

 

[GoofyDad869]

I have random receipts in my wallet. Let's see -

3/19/05 Home Depot - $17.36

4/20/03 Weigel's (local convenience store) - $26.38

11/2/05 McDonald's - $5.79

11/5/05 Applebee's - $14.22

2/18/06 UNO - $36.46

2/26/06 Exxon - $33.37

1/21/06 Babbage's - $26.43

Those are all for personal expenses/purchases.

For our business, I make SURE I give all my receipts to the office manager.

 

[AllyandJack]

My DH is like George Constanza. Every 3 years or so, I clean out his wallet and I'll find 3 year old receipts for restaurants or trips to the supermarket. I forbid him from getting gas receipts or the house would be overrun with them. When they ask if he wants a receipt, I tell him to hit "NO".

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I don't have a DH... not one that looses receipts and not one that keeps receipts...

 

[Luv'sTink]

Well, he is usually really good about it now! LOL he never used to be.

 

[SDFgirl]

I wish! My DH is the complete opposite. He keeps every receipt that he gets. Even from Mcdonalds and stuff like that. He puts them in a shoe box in the closet and keeps them each year. He thinks we might need them for tax purposes??? Some of them, yes, I can see. But Mcdonalds or other trivial stuff?? I don't get it. However, for the sake of marital harmony, I pretty much go along w/ it. But I do think it is strange.

My DH is the exact same way - except he keeps ALL receipts for three years!! I was the one who could never hold on to a receipt and when we got married, I was told that things were going to have to change. I do go along along with it for his sanity, but I think it's koo-koo.

 

[THESCHULTZFIVE]

Mine dosen't keep his for years, but if he goes shopping at the supermarket, he'll come home and study that receipt for his savings. Then he'll come to me and tell me how good he did. And if somethings not right on there, he will go back and get it corrected.

 

[floridafam]

My Dh never saved receipts. I save every single one.

I was doing our taxes last year and took out our receipts to add up what we spent in sales tax (we can deduct sales tax because we don't have an income tax in Florida.) Dh laughed and said it was silly to save all of them.

The deduction that the IRS computed on what our average sales tax was was FAR LESS than what we had actually spent. I was really glad at that point that I had saved the receipts. '

Now, Dh saves the receipts and he gets a receipt for EVERYTHING.

I could keep track of it on the computer and save myself a bunch of time at the end of the year but I never manage to get around to that.

 

[Lorix2]

My DH does save the receipts, he just puts them in his wallet and forgets about them until you can't read them anymore (those shiny paper ones like Home Depot). He just gave me a couple of Powerball tics to check that were dated almost a year ago If any of them had won anything substantial and they were expired, I'd have kicked him!

 

[SC Minnie]

DH is an accountant and keeps receipts for everything. Me, not so much. I throw them away as soon as I use the product and there is no chance I will return it.