For the years 2007 and 2008, I kept almost all my receipts in a little green military box designed to carry hand grenades. It's been stuffed to full capacity since then, so I finally decided to clean it out tonight. What I found was my entire life three years ago. In receipts.

To start off, here's a literal overview of all my collected receipts:

Obviously I didn't keep a receipt for every single purchase I made, but I thought it'd be fun to put together some statistical data based on the ones that I actually kept. There were way too many to try adding up, so instead I thought I'd put together some basic numbers about my consuming habits. The receipt count for each category breakdown are as follows:

• USPS: 39 (Delivery Confirmations: 16)
• UPS: 5
• FedEx: 26
• Games: 19
• Electronics: 51
• Clothes: 49
• Costco: 24
• Gas: 8 (I rarely keep them)
• Utilities/Household/Auto/Misc: 72
• Grocery: 30
• Food: 65

Breaking that down into more general categories we see that aside from the combined category of "Misc", I spent most of my time ebaying and shipping things out to customers. Then at a close second, I ate out a lot. Followed by buying gadgets and clothes.

Believe me, I'm not exactly proud of all the crap I bought, and how much of those purchases were a complete waste of money. But I thought it'd be kind of fun to document a little bit of my past.

To end I thought I'd share the one receipt that continues to represent my current day spending philosophy. And that's my first generation iPhone purchase, dated June 29th, 2007.