I realize that ink costs money and stores like to use thermal receipts to cut costs, but one annoying aspect of these things is that they fade. And, they fade fairly quickly! I was digging through the pile on my desk last night preparing my rebate submissions and found many of the receipts I had were a month or so old and had already started to fade. A Publix receipt I got on vacation in Florida has already faded in some spots making it virtually impossible to read. For me, I keep my receipts for maybe 3 months and then file them away because sometimes I do find rebates on items that I have purchased. Some rebates, like Caregiver's Market Place require you to save up receipts for submission since there's a $5 threshold. I am beginning to be afraid my CVS receipts won't last until I make that $5 threshold!
Worse, is when you buy big ticket items that are under warranty. If you need to make a claim, you need the receipt. 9 months later, your receipt is uselessly faded away. Because of this, I have started to scan receipts for the expensive, warranty items that we buy.
Another thing I noticed about thermal receipts is you can't leave them in your car when it is hot, or leave them near any thing that can get hot. I used to store my receipts in a basket near my toaster, but no more! Even getting them a little wet will ruin them.
If anyone has any ideas on how to make these thermal receipts last longer, please let me know!
1 comment:
Any easy way to scan them in would be to use Shoeboxed.com. They do the scanning for you. They're not going to fade if you digitize them I suppose.
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