Expense receipt diary with adhesive strips

Abstract

An expense receipt diary of a notebook-type including a front cover, a back cover, and a plurality of interior pages, secured together by binding on one side. The front of each interior page includes a mounting area that contains a plurality of adhesive strips. Each strip is comprised of a release liner and an underlying adhesive. Receipts may be attached to the underlying adhesives by removing the liners and pressing the receipt onto the exposed adhesives. The recording areas is located on the reverse side of the mounting area. The recording area is a printed surface where the employee can record details pertaining to the receipts attached to the mounting area of the same sheet.

1 . An expense diary or notebook to conveniently and securely collect, record, and tabulate individual expense tickets or receipts, ranging in size from small stubs to full size sheets of paper, and to categorize and keep information pertaining to said receipts, said expense diary or notebook comprising: 
 a front cover and a back cover; and    a plurality of interior pages secured together between said front and back covers by binding at one edge that allows said front and back covers and said plurality of interior pages to be freely turned, each page in said plurality of interior pages having a front side, a back side, a height, and a width and comprising: 
 a plurality of adhesive strips disposed on said front side, wherein each one of said plurality of adhesive strips is separate from each other and comprises a release liner and an underlying adhesive having vertical and horizontal dimensions substantially smaller than said height and said width of said interior page, respectively; and  
 a form for recording business information printed on said back side, wherein said tickets or receipts can be attached to at least one of said underlying adhesives of said plurality of adhesive strips and information pertaining thereto may be recorded on said form.  
   
     
     
         2 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein each one of said plurality of interior pages further comprises a perforated line disposed along an edge thereof near said binding for individually separating each one of said pages from said diary or notebook.  
     
     
         3 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein each of said plurality of interior pages and said front and back covers further comprise a plurality of binder holes pre-punched along one edge of said interior pages and said covers.  
     
     
         4 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein said form comprises a listing of business expense categories.  
     
     
         5 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein said at least one business expense receipt is one of at least two business expense receipts, at least two business expense tickets, and a combination of one of each of said business expense receipt and said business expense ticket.  
     
     
         6 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein said horizontal dimension of each one of said adhesive strip in said plurality of adhesive strips is longer than said corresponding vertical dimension.  
     
     
         7 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein said form is at least two forms, said back side has a surface, and said at least two forms are printed substantially over said surface of said back side.  
     
     
         8 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 7 , wherein said at least two forms comprise at least four forms.  
     
     
         9 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 1 , wherein said form for recording business information comprises at least one of a plurality of business data entry fields, checkboxes for categorizing said at least one business expense receipt, and checkboxes for categorizing a payment method, and, wherein further, each one of said plurality of business entry data fields is labeled with at least one of a receipt amount label, a date label, a foreign exchange rate label, a note label, a list of attendees label, and a list of companies label.  
     
     
         10 . The expense diary or notebook of  claim 9 , wherein said checkboxes for categorizing said at least one business expense receipt are labeled with at least one of an airfare label, a hotel label, a telephone label, a taxi/bus/train label, a tips label, a car/limo label, a mileage label, a parking label, a gas label, an entertainment label, a laundry label, a personal label, a postage label, a seminar/conference fee label, a supplies label, a gifts label, a miscellaneous/other label, and a personal and/or business meal label.