The Mandelbear's Musings

Finished the data-entry for the check registers, which includes almost all of the charitable contributions and about half the assorted business expenses. Now I get to go through credit-card receipts for the rest of it. Thursday, maybe.

In case you're wondering, I tend to use the shoebox method of bookkeeping. Every once in a while I transfer invoices and receipts from the shoebox to a bunch of file folders. Around tax time every year I decant all the non-tax folders into 9x12 envelopes and box them up, then go through the receipts relating to deductions and my side business (Schedule C), and type them into a tab-separated text file.

Then I run the file through a Perl script to compute subtotals by category, at which point data entry into TaxCut is basically trivial.