Debit Cards

Do the rest of you use debit cards? If so, how do you manage to write everything in your check book? In college, when I didn't have to spend money on a weekly basis, it was much easier. However, now we buy things all the time (food & house supplies mostly).

Bob and I use our debit card for almost everything because we hardly ever carry cash with us, and it is so much easier than writing a check. However, we always end up with a pile of reciepts on our desk that are debits that need to be written in our checkbook. It is quite annoying because neither of us ever want to write them all down, and the pile continues to grow until one of us gets so sick of it that we spend several hours trying to figure everything out.

And, our bank statement is showing that we have a couple thousand dollars more than what we thought we did! We can't figure that out either, and we currently refuse to believe that we actually have that much money. Perhaps we are financial idiots. Hmm...Bob is downstairs going through all of our old bank statements trying to get our checkbook balanced with the bank right now. Does anyone have an easier system that you use to always stay on top of things?