luggage stories, continued

[indigo_rose99]

After a week of searching all of my receipts, all of T's receipts, no suitcase receipt.  Ten year warranty and I cannot find the receipt?!  Argh.  Or, perhaps three of them.  Hard to tell them apart.  We buy from this one place a lot.

So, still vaguely hopeful, I took my maybe-receipts and the bent-handle suitcase down to the shop.  This time it was a staff person we have seen frequently.  She took my luggage.  Debated whether it was under warranty or not.  Said it could be back to me in 1.5 weeks, at worst costing me $25.  And she never asked to see a copy of the receipt.  Score!

Finally my luggage woes go my way!

Comments

[ovrclokd.livejournal.com]

score! :)

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

I've got a file that is labeled Household Equipment. If I buy anything with a warranty the receipt goes in there. Also instruction manuals a lot of the time.

File? I'll show you file!!

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Yes, I used to have one file that had all my warranties and instruction manuals. *wistful look*

Now I have six files. *rueful laugh* One just for warranties. One for outdoor instruction manuals (lawn mowers, weed eaters, etc.), one for geek stuff (PDAs, cell phones, key boards, etc.), one for kitchen stuff (blenders, food processors, grills, etc.), one for electronics (TVs, VCR, DVD players, speakers, stereo equipment, etc.) and one for anything that doesn't fit in one of the other categories. They take up half a drawer in one of my full-size filing cabinets.

I also have a file every year for every business expense (also written down in an Excel spreadsheet every year, also searched) since 2003.

I also have a box of receipts that may someday come in handy, but do not come with warranties or instruction manuals, and are not business expenses.

I searched all of those. Twice. *sigh* Lack of organization or filing is not my problem. Part of my problem is that I do not know when we bought it. Sometime in the last decade. I found a total of six receipts from Samsonite (the store). Three of them were identifiably NOT the one I needed. The other three... I wasn't sure. The object was vaguely the right price range, but the object purchased was all abbreviations and had been bought long enough ago (2+ years) that I could not pin down exactly what it was.