I don’t consider myself to be a particularly lucky person, at least when it comes to contests and drawings. Until yesterday, my biggest win ever had been a baseball cap that said “The Advocate’s Fantasy Football” in a random drawing when I was 14 (note: I am referring to the Baton Rouge daily newspaper, not the gay magazine, in case you were confused). So imagine my surprise when I got home yesterday afternoon and there was a package waiting for me.
I was initially confused. I haven’t ordered anything I remembered, and my name was on the package so it wasn’t my wife’s. I didn’t recognize the return address. Did the scammer founder of FreeNEzy.com finally track me down and send me a bomb for all of my posts criticizing his business practices? No, that’s even too conspiracy theory for me.
When I opened the box, I found a brand new Neat Receipts mobile scanner, compliments of the fine folks at the Neat Company and our friend Kay at Don’t Mess With Taxes (I love the name, too). Kay had run a drawing on her blog for the scanner and a copy of TurboTax Deluxe. You simply had to email her your mailing address and specify which of the prizes you wanted, and she would randomly draw from all submitted entries. Turns out I was the lucky winner. Yippee!
I had just been talking to one of my coworkers about these things. It is a small portable scanner designed for scanning receipts and business cards, but is wide enough to scan letter and legal size documents as well. I haven’t opened it up yet, but it seems like a great way to organize and save receipts before I lose them or the print fades. As I noted in a prior post, organizing receipts has been an issue for me.
You should certainly check out Kay’s blog if you haven’t already. Don’t Mess With Taxes provides tax-related news and tips in a surprisingly entertaining way. Kay is also the author of a new book, The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes
Anyway, thanks again Kay!
