I put the childcare/afterschool club and summer camps receipts with finances and the dates on the calendar.
I have given a lot of thought as to where to find receipts. I think conceptually, if saving receipts is for balancing books or tax prep, putting them in finance makes the most sense. This is probably the smart move, but to the extent that I balance our personal books, I don’t really need receipt tracking.
I think I find the most utility in keeping receipts for returns and reference. i.e. How much was summer camp last year? or My dishwasher died, I need the receipt and warranty for a return. In which case having them with the item or event makes sense to me.
Your way would solve my ambiguity issue, though.
It really does depend on what makes sense to you - I don’t think there is one answer!!
For childcare, I have
GTD finance tickler in reminders app - reminder to pay on PAYDAY
I then have an email folder for all variable childcare costs and school costs like trips, school dinner money.
I then claim tax deduction on childcare and add all of the receipts to finance folder.
I just do that once a month on the 3rd as that’s when my salary is paid and all of my bills come out and it just makes it easier to me and makes sense to me. It might be different for you.
That’s an impressive system! Thanks for sharing.
Building on @hans 's idea, here is what I’d be happy to have.
My laptop:
- 11+ME
- 11+ME.10 Certificates (shared)
- 11+ME.20 Journal (private)
- 11+PARTNER
My wife’s laptop:
- 11+ME
- 11+PARTNER.10 (shared)
So she can see what I’ve shared with her. Some magic would take care of renaming the folder to +ME and to +PARTNER to everybody sees their own stuff in +ME.
The way it works for me with Syncthing, and I would assume with any tool, there shouldn’t be a naming conflict. Because the name of the folder is whatever you define on your own computer. The ‘shared folder’ is an entity for the Sync tool’s purposes: on each end, you get to map it to whatever folder name you want.
The caveat is that you can only sync at the level of these folders.
on my laptop | Syncthing's name for it | on my wife's laptop
partner | someUniqueID | partner
Or am I missing something?
This sounds like a problem waiting to happen. I like the general idea but I’d stick with +JEN and +LEB if that was me & Lucy.
Adding some more thoughts to the discussion.
The Life Admin IDs sometimes are “about one person”, but not specifically “only for one person”. For example, I don’t mind if my wife has access to a copy of my passport (for emergencies), or my pay slips, but she doesn’t want or need access to my resume or applications or personal hobbies or friends.
Looking at the 11 category, I think this needs a refinement. Some IDs are about me and could stay where the are (and use the +WIF/+HUS suffix), but others should move to a new category (16?) like Personal or Private. Or to a separate Personal area like Hans suggested.
Perhaps this should/could even be incorporated in a future revision of the Life Admin package.
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