Stuff will never make you organized
15th June 2009
I’ve seen it happen so many times that I’m prepared to call it a general rule. If you’ve got all your receipts neatly organized in a shoebox, then it may well make sense to buy a handsome wooden receipt box. But if your receipts are scattered among drawers, tucked into envelopes, folders, and purses, and stacked up with unfiled bank statements, then buying a handsome box will do you no good at all. In fact, it’s worse than no good at all: next time you need to gather your receipts you’ll have to look in all those old places and your box as well.
There is wisdom here.