World hunger. Poverty. Climate change. Infectious diseases. Income disparity. Water shortages. A lack of understanding of ILXor habits when it comes to receipts.
This poll aims to fix at least one of these problems.
A receipt is a written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received. A receipt records the purchase of goods or service. It is not the same as an invoice. In English speaking countries, the term most frequently applies to the printed record given to a consumer at the point of sale which lists the purchases made and the prices including tax, discounts and other adjustments, the amount paid, and the method of payment. The receipt may also include messages from the retailer, warranty or return details, special offers, advertisements or coupons. Receipts may also be provided for non-retail operations such as banking transactions. A receipt is a legal document. In many countries, notably the United States of America, it is mandatory by law for retailers, and individuals, have to show receipts and store information about every receipt, so that the tax authority, or IRS can check that sales are not hidden. I just stole all of that from Wikipedia.
What do you do with receipts? Do you throw them away? Do you keep them? Do you beg the cashier to throw it away for you? Do you cause an incident if the cashier forgets to give it to you? Do you use them for tax purposes? Do you look at them weeks later to help you remember the greatest evenings of the past season?
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| I throw all my receipts away immediately | 8 |
| I keep receipts until I'm comfortable I wasn't fucked over in the transaction, then throw them away | 2 |
| I keep all my receipts ~forever~ | 1 |
| I only keep receipts that I might use for taxes later on | 1 |
| Other | 0 |
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link