Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is organizing your receipts. The quick and dirty tip is to organize as they come in,

taping receipts to sheets in a notebook organized by expense type. I'll bet 40% of our economy is devoted to nothing but tracking money.

Lawyers, accountants, bookkeepers, banks, investment banks, all just create and track money.

Even your local drugstore has cash registers that track money. And you. They build a profile

of you, sell it to faceless international special interest groups who know who you are, and use it for their own nefarious purposes. But I digress. The store gives you paper coupons and receipts. Billions of trees have died for your $3.99 plus tax receipt for that must-have bottle of boundless color midnight magic black nail polish.

I always wanted to be a cool nihilistic goth boy. Instead, I was just a computer geek.

And what do you do with this paper receipt? Eager to play your part, you do-dofully crumple it up,

stick it in your pocket pocket and take it home,

where it sits, with piles of other receipts, in a big shoebox hoping to be organized on April

14th so you can do your taxes.

If you're in business, you do exactly the same thing, but you do it weekly, and call it

an expense report.

Transform your life.

Control those receipts.

Your corporate masters control you.

It's the least you can do to reclaim your power.

First, let's stop with the shoebox full of crumpled X trees.

Those trees were some other trees' little saplings once.

They deserve respect. Go right out and get a binder full of

eight and a half by eleven sheets of paper and some scotch tape. If you're in Scotland,

you may have to get A4 paper and some American tape. Go wild. Next time you empty receipts from

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