National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

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Want to learn more about how Shoeboxed can help you save time, money, and headaches? Aaron Aiken from Trimtab Creative interviewed me for his podcast, the Weekly App.
Check it out!
http://weeklyapp.tv/2009/10/episode-v-shoeboxed-removes-paper-clutter-gives-you-online-access-and-is-irs-friendly/

I’ve heard from a lot of people that they think this year’s cold and flu season is the worst in a long while. People seem to be getting sick all over the place, and many are looking for a quick fix that can get them back healthy as soon as possible.
One of the most popular [...]

My dad is famous in our family for being able to return anything to a store, no matter whether he has a receipt or not, whether the product was used or not, and with total disregard for company return policies. We’re not really sure how he manages to do it. For the rest of us [...]

Filling out expense reports can be a costly hassle. Business travelers have to track and convert expenses to get reimbursed. There are many methods of dealing with the annoyance we all call expense reports: costly executive assistants, time-consuming Excel expense log-sheets, expensive scanners, and, of course, Shoeboxed Receipt Mail-In. But only one of these [...]

Deals, deals, deals. As of yesterday, they are officially all over the place. And they’ll be everywhere throughout the holiday season shopping rush. Whether you go out with the family to your local mall and spend the entire day there, or if you decide to stay at home and take advantage of the many online [...]

We have a lot of new features on Shoeboxed as of last Friday, but there’s only one that gives you free stuff.
After you’re done exploring how our receipt organization is improved, and how you can organize, share, and stereotype specific things you and other people have bought to get those receipts, and then after [...]

On Wednesday, Apple announced that it will reduce the price of its much-hyped iPhone from $599 to $399 for its 8GB model. The new price is still a little out of my budget, so I don’t have one yet. It was completely different story, though, for those people that had bought them before the reduction. [...]

When I first registered for my Shoeboxed account, I wanted to fill up my account with all my purchasing information. But alas, I am a poor college student, and couldn’t afford to go on a shopping spree right then and there just to watch the receipts go in (though I did make one or two [...]

When it comes to online shopping, I’ve realized that my mom isn’t really seeing the whole picture. Sure, she’s learned to order her running shoes online so that she can save money. We’ve set up online banking so that she can easily pay all of the bills electronically, saving paper and minimizing piles [...]

Before you throw out that half-eaten pizza, you might think about attaching a bow to the box. Many dedicated “freegans” loot our dumpsters for left-over food in a frenzy from the latest anti-capitalist trend gripping the nation. And yes, there is a good chance that your half eaten pizza is a target.
That’s right, [...]