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Jun 14, 2008 | 5:49 pm

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Originally Posted by ESpen36

If you're like me, you always "estimate high" on how much you spent abroad. I can never remember exactly how much I spent abroad, so I'll put $200 or something and then write on the back:
$100 clothes
$50 chocolates
$35 music CDs
$15 misc.

I do the same. I never seem to buy anywhere near the limit, either. One time I had a problem, though. I'd itemized and estimated that I'd spent $400 or $500 on stuff and they started asking for details, like "How many books did you buy for $100." In the end, it didn't add up to what I'd written. So, they asked for receipts. They were rather stumped that I'd managed to declare more than I actually had by $100 or so. They didn't search me and were actually rather pleasant about it.

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