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11-25-2007, 09:51 AM | Topic Starter |
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How do you deal with home document clutter?
I'm taking back over the 'paperwork' portion of our domestic organization. My wife's approach to this dilemma was save everything, which basically resulted in massive piles of 'to be filed' documents, and bulging files that spread out over several folders. We're not quite to the carve tunnels through the office stage of pack rat habitation, but I can see it's not too far off. I probably tend too far to the pitch everything side. One point of contention is certainly what to save, and how long to save things.
So, my thought is this. We need a plan or process to follow. So if any of you have such a thing in your homestead that works well please share. Due to the wonders of Google I have found one very good website and will add others if people recommend them. articles and websites: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/clutter/financial_tax.html |
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11-25-2007, 10:11 AM | #2 |
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paper will be worth mucho dollars
but not for 50 years downthe line |
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11-25-2007, 10:14 AM | #3 |
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I stopped getting most of my bills mailed to me. I pay most of my bills online now.
You view your billing history on line anyways. Helps keep some of the paperwork down.
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11-25-2007, 10:30 AM | #4 | |
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At any rate, my suggestion to you is to save every thing until you get your taxes filed. Anything possible you can deduct from your taxes, do it and save the documentation for 7 years (I believe). In the event that you get audited, you will want it, I promise. Anything else you "could" toss. I have taken to keeping my bills for a year with the check # on them. I have had to refer to them before, but I haven't needed my bills over a year old. Any high dollar bills or purchases, I would keep the documentation for at least the life of the warranty, especially if there is a phone number or part number in the event that you need to reorder parts. That's what I do. What I would suggest you do is keep everything until your taxes are filed, then you can evaluate what you need based on the following.
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11-25-2007, 10:29 AM | #5 |
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Buy a bigger house.
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11-25-2007, 10:31 AM | #6 |
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11-25-2007, 10:42 AM | #7 |
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I scan in my documents, save them to one of my servers and back that up to a 500 gig external that I can grab and run out of the house with in case of a fire.
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I think the prices on scanners and external hard drives have significantly dropped over the past year. |
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