I was just reading on a great website called livescience.com that there may be paperless receipts in our future!  When I first started reading it, I was thinking that I am a receipt freak and I don’t know how this would work, and if I would like it or not.

According to the article, the merchants will be able to email your receipts to you instead of handing you a paper one.  The good part of this is that you would then not worry about losing your receipts, or having shoe boxes full of them.  You could store them on a thumb drive or memory card!  This would free up a lot of space.  The downside of this, though, would be that I often like to look at my receipt before I leave the store to find out for sure that I was not overcharged for something.  I frequently find that I AM overcharged for something and then I want to fix it before I leave the store.  It is a real pain to discover an error like that after I get home and then have to drive all the way back to the store to resolve the issue!

So, I am not convinced that paperless receipts would be a good thing for me.