Organising receipts

[2015mom]

Hi my receipts are a mess and I want to get organised for 2017 so I was planning on keeping a seaparate file for 2017 as follows:
• Fuel 2017
• Groceries 2017
• General 2017

They will be going in brown buff files.

How do you organise your receipts

I don't know whether to organise the General receipts file in alphabetical order or date order... please help

Thanks

If it was me I'd organise the by date in specific categories. You know such as clothes, house, gifts, etc x

Do you need to keep all of them ??

Thank you everybody for your input.

I recently put my manuals of all electrical items and manuals for things around the house in two Lever arch folders with dividers A to Z which will make it easier to find manuals! They were previously just thrown in a big box and finding was so annoying.

I am going to staples the receipts for these items with the manuals because if they are required it will be after looking at the manual.

Everything else I will file in alphabetical order for years preceding 2017 so it will be easier to find in the future if required.

This year I will file in date order in three separate files as follows:
• General 2017
• Groceries 2017
• Diesel 2017

Groceries are purely filed separately because there are so many and I can review ways of saving money in the future.

Diesel file is useful because use them to claim mileage.

General 2017 covers all other receipts.

I don't keep many receipts.

Staple each receipt to a piece of paper and stick it in a lever arch file.

I usually file mine in the bin! Unless you need them for an expensive item then why keep them at all?

I keep debit/credit card receipts until I get my bank/visa statements and then shred them