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[msmemory_archive]

Repeat until automatic:

I am not their archivist (except for the SCA, where I still sorta am).
I do not need utility bills for the house we sold more than a year ago.
I do not need any utility bills from my mother's accounts.
I do not need credit card statements other than those showing big purchases where I might have to make a warranty claim.
I do not need pay stubs prior to the current year, except enough to document my salary history. And if I have the raise letter from the relevant employer, not at all.
I do not need old cancelled checks, except for mortgage documentation etc. and charitable deductions.

If I can just get rid of that much, I should have enough office space to file the rest!

Comments

[lisagw.livejournal.com]

Good rules - I'm working through a similar list myself - I've already filled to large bags with shredding, and I'm not even through one drawer of my four-drawer lateral file.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

But ... but ... that's what attics are for. Then you can keep that stuff FOREVER!

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

I was repeating a very similar list yesterday as I cleaned off the shelves in the office. Turned up credit card statements from the 1990s, I did! Now they are shred into little tiny pieces. I'm so happy I invested in a heavy duty shredder.

BTW, re the SCA stuff. I'll take anything off your hands you think should be transferred to the Baronial archives.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

That sounds like one of my projects for my week off. Whee.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

Yay, Fling! I emptied two more folders left over from projects I never got around to for Holt the other day. *I* do not have years worth of financial stuff because my paranoid husband takes them and puts them who-knows-where when I declare a folder too full. There are days I really hope I die first so I don't have to go through his/our stuff. I need to fling more of my own stuff before I can die, so maybe I'll have to live another fifty years or so. :-)

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

I love that. I have tried most of those, but it's a good reminder to check the file to see if I have lapsed. :-)

Need it?? Or not??

[ramblingmom.livejournal.com]

Old Holiday cards???

Old annual letters??

Old pictures from holiday cards or annual letters??