Originally Posted by
SpeedingLunatic
I recently picked up a Fujitsu fi-7160 scanner. I scan all receipts & GCs with it. It can scan a stack of 20-25 GCs in under 10 seconds. The software that comes with it OCRs the numbers off the front of the card and indexes them all in an excel file. This significantly cuts down on my physical storage requirements.
As far as tracking outlays/transactions, I've used Quicken for about a decade.
Eh, can't say dropping $1k on a scanner is exactly in the spirit of MS.
I suggest starting small and growing as your MS does, over time my spreadsheet has grown more and more complex, checking between various MS load/unload and flagging parts that don't match up for further review within a % of error, then automatically moving 'acceptable' data for safe keeping.
Beyond that, physical items (GC, VR, receipts, etc etc) all get wrapped together by transaction, then put together chronologically by month in a shoebox for safe keeping in case something occurs that requires the physical medium.