I Need to Rethink My Filing System
My tax return isn't quite finished yet. I'm having an argument with my filing system. "Shove it in a shopping bag and deal with it later" has resulted in a couple of missing receipts and a whole bunch of electronic receipts needing to be printed from my email, paypal and other various files that are, um, in locations that haven't been located yet.
Plus the bag I was keeping receipts in before we moved last November is... somewhere.
I suck at organisation. (Everyone who has ever been to my house is now laughing hysterically at my grand understatement of the facts). Since the new financial year began 17 days ago I'm going to get this year's receipts in order now and download the book keeping software from the Aussie tax website and keep everything under control.
Right after I find the whole year's worth of phone bills (I have most of them, just not all of them).
Possibly.
Here's something that I do have under control:

Four more squares for my suffolk puff/yo-yo coverlet. At first I was afraid that the "mostly white" squares were going to be horrible because I really hated the fabric that I used but all scrunched up like that I think they look really nice. That makes 72 squares done and 28 to go. Unless I've counted incorrectly, which is a definite possibility.
For new readers, here's the blurb from my flickr set:
"Progress shots of my very first suffolk puff/yo-yo coverlet made with the Clover Quick Yo-Yo Maker.
I'm using mostly cotton (but not all) fabric scraps and discarded fashion fabric samples from my sewing, local op shops and the Reverse Garbage Co-Op.
The suffolk puffs are 4.5cm in diameter and the size of the finished coverlet should be just over five and a half feet square.
Started at the very end of April 2007 and intended as a wedding present on August 19th 2007.
Wish me luck!"
Entry posted by Sarah at July 17, 2007 8:15 AM
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I used to have a huge "to be filed" pile. It got really out of hand. One day I just decided to create files for everything in the 2 drawer cabinet under my desk (and put everything from previous years in a box in the basement). I have a very simple Excel spreadsheet where I record income and expenses. Whenever a bill comes in, I put it right into the spreadsheet and then file it. Then at tax time I hand the files and printout of the spreadsheet to my accountant. I don't think it is very organized by he thinks I'm wonderful and charges me less because all he has to do is my taxes and not organize my whole accounting system.
Hope you come up with something that works for you. I hate organization, too. But tax stuff seems important enough, I guess.
Posted by: JoVE at July 17, 2007 2:36 PM