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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Thanks, Connie. I'm not tossing things out willy-nilly. In fact, I still have the vast majority of my saved papers. I'm trying to scan them in and only then will I throw them out (and some I'll probably still have in paper form just out of paranoia).
ETA: I also have good digital backups on several drives. I have to arrange some "in the cloud" storage though, in case of fire.
This is the website of the folks predicting the Rapture tonight: [link]
Dammit, why aren't they live-blogging it? That could be fun.
Rapture would make a good name for a social media music site, though...
I kept my paystubs about the same amt of time I'd keep utility bills and such. About 7 years.
OMG. I only keep my taxes that long. Of course, I haven't gotten paper utility bills in years, so all of that is online somewhere anyway.
I had to have paystubs for stuff recently, but cannot remember what. I know I needed them for adoption stuff.
I've needed them for rental applications and stuff, but only current ones, and I knew that ahead of time.
I'm going to keep shredding! I love shredding.
Jesse, I figure if I get audited or something, I'll need to have those things to reconstruct stuff. So that's why I keep them as long as taxes. I wish to god I could afford an accountant but I can't. And I suck at math so my financial accounts are not gathered nor tidy.
All my paystubs are online. I don't even get paper ones anymore. I love it - the less paper in my house, the better.
Yeah, I wish mine were paper! Edit: I mean, NOT paper. The other kind.
My taxes are basically just my income, so there's nothing to prove outside of that, even in case of an audit.
My income has been weird for a number of years due to intermittently being on state disability or SSDI or having an FSA account or old dotcom stock from when I worked in that or releasing an album that hasn't even gone into the black yet. A lot of people would find that stuff pretty simple but I get really intimidated by it.
I didn't realize I qualified for earned income and such until I ran my taxes through Turbo Tax. There's a few thousand of refunds I've missed over the years.