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I Feel In"shred"ible!

August 27th, 2011 at 07:23 pm

I buckled down last night and went through my four-drawer file cabinet and some binders to fill five (5!) paper garbage bags with stuff for the shredder. Ir took hours, but I managed to watch two episodes of "House of Cards" and two episodes of "Mad Men" on Netflix while sorting, so it was more fun than onerous.

In the pitching pile: 1995 tax returns, my ex-husband's brokerage statements, brokerage statements from my investment club in the 1990s, my DH's paycheck stubs since 2001. Tons of stuff! Can you tell how excited I am?

The credit union near us had a free shredding day today--and it was jammed. What fun! I got me thinking that all my notes from my dissertation can probably go too. I've freed up two entire drawers in my office.

Posted in Castles and Hovels | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “I Feel In"shred"ible!”

  1. Jerry Says:
    August 27th, 2011 at 09:48 pm 1314481732
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    That leads me to feel a little guilty. I have loads of notes and documents and research questionnaires from my master's thesis in a couple of boxes in my mom-in-law's spare room, just taking up space. I think when we get back to the States I will digitize the files (need the insurance of at least having a copy SOMEPLACE, just in case) and then have a little shred-a-palooza as well. Smile Jerry

  2. creditcardfree Says:
    August 27th, 2011 at 10:07 pm 1314482878
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    Great job!! I'm excited for you.

  3. patientsaver Says:
    August 28th, 2011 at 12:17 am 1314490634
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    You might want to hold onto any other filed tax returns you come across. Just in case of an audit, say. But for the rest of it, good bye and good riddance!

  4. baselle Says:
    August 28th, 2011 at 01:59 am 1314496741
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    That is exciting! I had a similar project back at the farmette in 2009 with Dad's old bills, invoices and papers. This was different than the project of sorting important papers/will/total crap in 2005. Sister doesn't handle papers all that well and was a hair freaked out about it. All I did was:
    1. get out a stack of brown manila envelopes (the big kind)
    2. sort the paper by year - 1994, 1995, 1996 .... to 2005.
    3. stick a year's worth per brown manila envelope.
    4. labeled the year. Also wrote "destroy after (year 10).
    5. Stacked the envelopes in an upstairs bedroom.
    6. Destroyed anything pre 1999.

    I know that generally its 7 years, but it made sister feel better that it was 10. Somehow I don't think she will just grab the envelope of the year and destroy it herself. It'll be a thirty second project for me to go upstairs the next time I come out.

    I invite anyone who has a "what if" fetish with paper to use my technique. Simple. Effective.

  5. jewels3 Says:
    August 28th, 2011 at 02:03 am 1314497029
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    Before we moved, I scanned important documents to a flash drive and shredded it all. It took weeks to do it as I had years accumulated, but it was awesome not moving any of it and it will definitely be something I maintain here

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