I am sitting next to a growing mountain of recipts from the past few months. I have a tendency to always obtain and hold onto recipts.
I was curious about what everyone else here does with recipts? Is there any benefit to keeping recipts except to see how a couple months ago fuel was $0.60 cheaper than it is now?

 

I get one every stop for fuel so I can enter the data into my logbook at home on the computer... I do have a full record of all fuel since 19,000 on the clock. I'm currently around 58K on the clock...

Records from 7/1/2003 @ 19,000 miles till present...

MPG average - 20.36 MPG (coming off of winter fuel)
Gallons used - 2,125.73 Gallons
Total Spent - $4,066.35

All of this can be done with a simple program called "Automotive Wolf" you can download a free trial copy.

http://www.lonewolf-software.com/automotivewolf.htm

Well worth the $29.95 to keep your beast in top shape!

 

I keep all mine because they are a tax deduction

rob

 

I only keep mine long enough to figure out my mpgs.
Monthly invoice from the credit card company has replaced saving receipts for tax purposes.

 

I keep it until I fill up again.
It's proof that I bought X number of gallons @ X date in case I get a load of bad fuel.

 

I used to keep them for "tax" purposes, but then I was told to just "take the mileage". Meaning that I had only about $900.00 in fuel reciepts (about 20% of them lost I estimate). There is alot more depreication happening to a 26K used truck than $900 a year! My tax "lady" told us to jsut keep logs of the milage used for work and play and take the write off that way. I go along with what saves me the most money. Good idea about the software for keeping records though. I imagine it's pretty comprehensive.

 

It is quite good... It keep record of fuel, maintenace, additions, etc. It make full reports of what needs to be done, how effecient you truck is... For 30 bucks it worth it...

 

I use debit cards to buy fuel so I keep the receipt to balance my checkbook in Quicken. Quicken also shows me how much I spend on various things.

 

i've got 90% of all my fuel recepts somewhere [some in the truck, some in the house...] i do all my fuel economy calculations on the recept and keep track of my milage on them...

 

I keep mine for the same reason Shovelhead mentioned.

 

I as well.

I don't want to keep a log of how much I've spent on fuel, depression is a bad thing.

For the poll, I said a month, even though it's more like 2 weeks if I'm lucky.



phox

 

According to my logs I've run 25564.0 miles using 1674.13 gallons at an average price of $1.83/gal demonstrating 15.27 miles per gallon with fuel costs averaging 12.012 cents per mile for a total of $3052.97 of fuel with an average of 3652 miles between oil changes. I like homemade log software.

brandon.

 

Ive got every receipt for fuel. I track it in a spread sheet along with oil changes, repairs, accessories, etc.

Rich

 

Bradno, are you willing to share or sell your log software????

 

same as Shovelhead and Calls here. I just stuff them in my ashtray till it overflows, lol.

I used to throw them out but after getting a bad load of fuel and getting stuck on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere w/ a dead lift pump I def. keep mine now.


Jeff