Cleaning out old records

[BlueAllTheWay]

2. Old Records

Oh boy, I know exactly what you mean. I've gone through my parents stuff over the past decade.
I really don't like using the shredder so I would open each envelope and mark out sensitive into. Many of the
statements from banks, medical bills, etc. would have their name and account numbers or social security number
on each page and some had them on more than one section of a page. Errrrrrr.

I did a LOT of marking out info with a marker, then tearing up the pages before throwing in the trash. I had so much
fun. Then I've had my paperwork to contend with. Followed the same procedure on a lot of my stuff. I STILL have lots
of paperwork, but have thrown out a lot over time. I've also thrown out old manuals and a lot of old tax returns and now
am trying to stay on top of them and on ly keeping 7 years worth.

I've changed as much as I can to online billing so that I don't receive those stupid statements every month! It does seem
like it's never ending though.