View Poll Results: How long do you keep recipts?
Goes in trash can as I leave the station.
13
16.46%
Goes on passenger side floor of truck. Gets swept out when it gets swept out.
12
15.19%
Keep for a month.
10
12.66%
Keep for a few months.
12
15.19%
I've got recipts for every gallon of fuel I've ever bought.
32
40.51%
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Fuel Recipts
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Fuel Recipts
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 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?
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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!
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!
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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.
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Good idea about the software for keeping records though. I imagine it's pretty comprehensive.
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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...
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Originally posted by Shovelhead
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 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 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.
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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.
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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
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