The way you learn to clean, the eyes you develop for a receipt left on the floor or a toilet paper role in need of changing, can truly be life changing.
One of its theater proprietors skipped to Paris with $1,800 in receipts, leaving behind a destitute wife, six children and many unpaid actors.
"The employee 'reviewing' receipts left the line and cheerfully said, 'I'm going to have to see your receipt first,' " he wrote.
That left a deficit one percentage point bigger than the UK's, a marked change from the previous year when oil receipts left Scotland with a healthier fiscal balance than Britain as a whole.
The surpluses were supposed to continue through this year, which the authority had predicted would end with $300 million in excess cash (largely because of real estate tax receipts left over from previous years).
Something of the journey undertaken could also be pieced together from the receipts left on the dashboard: for 44 litres of "tempo diesel" from a service station in Hungary at 1.32am, and later that morning in Austria, a litre of cola and 69 litres of diesel at 7.15am.
Property receipts left by state agents show they seized multiple computers and hard drives and materials from Planned Parenthood conferences Daleiden covertly attended.
Considering that he paid $2.3 million to redecorate the house's dining hall and tea room, according to receipts left behind in the mansion, that may have been a steal.
In fact, spending rose more quickly than planned, but tax receipts collapsed, leaving the deficit at 12% of GDP in 2010-11 rathan then the 1.7% projected only two years ago.
This seems like a lot of work for a little money but a man "dressed in a Comcast uniform and driving a Comcast van" showed up at a woman's house at 2 30 in the afternoon a few days ago, took her cable box and cable modem, gave her a receipt, and left.
