LOL!
To tell the truth, I pretty much am implementing your strategy, with a
fat folder in the back of the bottom file drawer, a stash in a tin box in
the "garage", and multitudes stuffed between the pages of Bentley.
Max
Scott Hower had this to say:
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>Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com> spoke thusly:
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>>> ... I wonder, does anyone keep
>>> their auto maintenance and expenses records on a computer in their
>>>garage?
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>Max- are you crazy?? Keeping maintenance records is fine - even encouraged,
>but storing your restoration expenses in one spot is asking for trouble!!
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>To reduce the risk of spousal detection, it is a much better strategy to
>scatter your receipts around the house. A shoebox full here, a notebook
>full over there... you get the idea. If things get really bad, stash the
>big ones at work.
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>If you must keep a spreadsheet, at least name it something discrete, like
>foobar.xls
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>--Scott :-)
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>Hower's 2 rules of restoration:
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>1. The car is never, EVER finished.
>2. Never, never add up the total spent.
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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