In todays’ society many of us use debit cards on a daily basis.  I don’t know about you, but I rarely carry cash, so without a debit card in hand I’m useless.  One of the disadvantages of this is that I must keep close track of my spending or I will chance going over budget.  In order to do so I need to keep up with my receipts so that I won’t go over budget.

I often carry an extra envelope my purse as a place to put the receipts.  Then, weekly or at least monthly I need to go through the receipts and enter them into my money database to keep up with my spending.  The closer I have to track my spending the more often I’ll need to do so.  So, if you are on a tight budget it will be necessary to go through and enter your receipts on a more regular basis.

What about you? What do you do to keep up with your debit receipts?

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