How often do you sort through your paperwork, old bills, receipts, bank statements etc ?
I keep mine for a year but a friend has bills from 10 years ago !
What about you ?
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Iām absolutely dreadful at this sort of thing - Iām never going to work in an office! 
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Tend to have a tidy out once in a blue moon, which coincides with when we need to find something. Never regular though.
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I donāt have bank statements any more, i went āpaperlessā years ago, but receipts are the worst thing ever, supermarket receipts in particular.
I stuff them in my shopping bag and forget about them until i canāt ignore them any more.
Then i have a massive clear out.
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Some of mine are in Latin! 
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We are pretty paperless now but, one does have spreadsheets of information going back years, I can tell you what we spent on groceries on 05/07/2011 if you like 
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I always think of my poor daughter if anything should happen to me, having to wade through and dispose of years worths of bills, old letters etc.
Sheāll have enough to do sorting out my wardrobe ! 
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Maybe itās best not to remind yourselfā¦!
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Our kids only have to push the āDeleteā button, that is what good parenting is all about 
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I tend to stick everything in a pile and when it gets big enough, i will sit down and sort, file or shred. Iām probably at that point nowā¦
and will get round to it sometime when i have a clear out.
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I have folders neatly marked in a single space in my computer room. I file any important document immediately where it belongs. I only keep relevant paperwork for income tax time, as Iāve done my own filing for 5 decades now. Every six months I review what I have and what to be on the look out for. No excess receipts (utility bills, monthly vehicle payments, insurances, IRA accounts, retirement accounts, bank statement) as this is all kept online in your account for 5 years. Itās immediately accessible so no paperwork needed.
Can you tell Iām neat and organized IRL? Training from accounting career and law enforcement!
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Creep 
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I agree! Itās a despicable habit, and I should be ashamed of myself 
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Be my girl friday. 
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we have a clear out every new years day
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As soon as it comes into the house, I deal with it. Canāt stand clutter, and donāt like having an enormous pile to deal with
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Administrator here so of course I have a filing system and a shredder and a drawer full or maybe two ā¦ of stationery
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Never mind paperwork, I just noticed I still have my original Krooklock from the UK in the 1960s hanging on my garage wall.
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That blows another myth Bruce, I was always told, folks used to leave their front doors open because there was no crime back in the 60s
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