From: Matthew Hunt
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
I am utterly amazed. Not at the fluctuation in gas prices. That's
to be expected when the price of a resource is determined by
trading on commodities markets. What amazes me is that anyone has
enough time to track their gasoline expenditures.
I also keep records of all of my fuel fills. I currently use an iPod
Touch application. Except for the number of gallons, everything else
(odometer, cost per gallon, etc.) can be entered while the fuel is
pumping, so it's not particularly time-consuming.
I keep a trip diary in the car where I write down the mileage of
whatever destination I have reached. It was a habit I started back when
I was a traveling service tech & needed to turn that information in to
my employer for their billing.
Now, I may be getting old and my memory ain't so good anymore, but I
have a pretty good idea where I've been and when I went there, 'cause I
continued to write it down.
From that diary, I can reconstruct whether travel was business or
pleasure; how much is deductible.
It's easy enough to write the mileage, gallons, cost & total in the
diary whenever I get gas. I write the mileage on the receipt, and keep
the receipt in the book until I bring the book into the house and update
the record of any gasoline purchases on a spread sheet.
Occasionally I play with the data just to see what it might be able to
tell me about what's going on. It's a cheap and easy way to keep my
spread sheet skills sharp.
And doing it doesn't take that much time, maybe as much as it takes to
write this.
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