why am i useless at this?

**kelzunique** · 03-08-2008, 10:59 AM

can i ask the furthest behind youve got with your accounts? i am months behind and just cant ever seem to keep up with it all! Also, i am useless at keeping reciepts, i always forget or lose them. i really need to get on top of it all.

what sort of routines do you all have to keep up to date?

**Pudding Girl** · 03-08-2008, 11:01 AM

I keep every receipt and as soon as I empty bags I put it in the kitchen cubby hols thing ( wine rack really!!) I have got to catch up too though, you've inspired me to sit and go through all my receipts this afternoon!

**kelzunique** · 03-08-2008, 11:05 AM

thats what im doing now. catching up, and trying to find my reciepts that seem to have grown legs and wandered off on there own.

**Tatia** · 03-08-2008, 11:11 AM

Grab a pocket folder and just bung them all in there. Maybe not the most organized way to keep them but at least they will be there when you need them.

**flora** · 03-08-2008, 07:09 PM

I have a box file for minding so all receipts etc go in there. I just bung it in and sort once a year for the tax man

The farm is the same although I have three cd storage boxes. One for paid, one for unpaid and one for important bits I musn't loose.

As things come in I just house them in the appropriate box.

Have fun

**cloud9** · 03-08-2008, 09:35 PM

I pin all my receipts up in an envelope on my notice board and do my accounts every friday when i finish work.

**kindredspirits** · 03-08-2008, 09:38 PM

my hubby puts all his reciepts in a box and I end up sorting them out at the end of the tax year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not going to be making the same mistake with my business!

**Trouble** · 03-08-2008, 09:40 PM

i do get months behind sometimes but i have 4 envelopes in my little box thing and everytime i get a receipt i chuck it in the box and the end of ever week chuck all the ones in the box into one envelope and then do it again for the next 4 weeks

it does help

**miffy** · 03-08-2008, 09:45 PM

I have an envelope for every month for receipts - I have been trying to catch up with my accounts today - still haven't finished last years accounts yet

Miffy xx

**Trouble** · 03-08-2008, 09:48 PM

i havent been sent the forms for this year yet is that normal or do i ring up?????

**miffy** · 03-08-2008, 09:57 PM

I am still doing my tax return for 2007/2008 (from April 2007 to March 2008) - the forms were sent out in April.

It depends when you do your accounts from and to.

Miffy xx

**Trouble** · 03-08-2008, 10:00 PM

i sent last years in in may june,

should i ring up or wait?

sorry hate maths stuff

Pipsqueak · 03-08-2008, 10:01 PM

ahem..... I haven't even started mine for this year....

**Trouble** · 03-08-2008, 10:06 PM

i dont know about you 2 but i have to have complete silence when im doing mine,

i usually pack the hubby and kids of to his mums to do mine. and i have been know to sit in the middle of their huge garden and do them as its so big the kids are in the tree house over the other side of the garden their only millie who bothers me and she tries to eat the receipts(shetland Pony)

**miffy** · 03-08-2008, 10:17 PM

I need silence and space - usually have bits of paper everywhere - and lots of time so I can get something done.

Hubby and ds are away this week so hoping to get last years finished at least!

Miffy xx

**Trouble** · 03-08-2008, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by miffy

I need silence and space - usually have bits of paper everywhere - and lots of time so I can get something done.

Hubby and ds are away this week so hoping to get last years finished at least!

Miffy xx

dont forget to eat and sleep

**miffy** · 03-08-2008, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by rascal

dont forget to eat and sleep

Ha, ha - it's funny but because hubby and ds are away my friend suggested we went out for Sunday lunch (very nice) and then tonight ds1 and girlfriend took me out for another meal!!!!

I am so stuffed I don't think I'll need to eat again all week

Miffy xx

**Alibali** · 05-08-2008, 06:46 PM

Tut Tut you lot!! I do mine every friday after the kids leave, there is so much I would forget otherwise, like the ice-creams and the fuel for the shopping trip, not to mention toddler fees etc. You really should get organised. It only takes 5-10 mins a week and then at the end of tax year it still only takes 5 mins instead of panicking about tax returns

LOOPYLISA · 06-08-2008, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by kindredspirits

my hubby puts all his reciepts in a box and I end up sorting them out at the end of the tax year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not going to be making the same mistake with my business!

Snap

**Mollymop** · 06-08-2008, 07:10 PM

Cos I am new and innocent

I am a good girl and do my accounts every week.
At the moment I only have a handful of receipts for things over £10 and I put them all in a plastic folder thingy.
I intent on being good and carrying on with my own little routine, but I can't promise anything.