Documents - What do you keep, and how long for?

I have kept all of my P60 slips and only the last 6 months of wage slips. If you have a mortgage then keeping annual statements is good practice also.
 
Keep all the important items, and all car/bike/tax related, pay slips. Bank statements are all online now. I also keep any high value items, warranties, rental agreements, council tax statements etc...
 
I've got every single payslip from the day i started....15 years ago :)

The rest gets binned as i have never needed them.
 
Mr-White said:
Scan them to pdf ?

MW
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Yup, been doing this for a year now and can't believe I did not switch sooner.

- Gone paperless for as much as I can
- Anything that arrives via the post and requires filing:
- Scan with Genius Scan on iPhone
- Upload to dedicated folder on Google Drive
- Tag as required

Works a treat and takes seconds. iPhone does a great job for basic filing scans.
 
Mr-White said:
Scan them to pdf ?

MW
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Yep, that's why I do - then like all my stuff it goes onto Dropbox and Googledrive. Call me paranoid but everything important eg work, photos of family, and this kind of stuff goes online twice, on both my computers and also on a couple of WD Passports I keep at my parents.
 
scanning takes too long.

I have a file for each yr, and i just throw it up in the attic once it gets two yrs old. So if i need to pull something from 2013 or 2012, i have it to hand. It's one of my end of yr chores, to make a new file, and fill out all the tabs.
 
I used to keep everything for 5 years but then realised that it was mostly all replaceable and that I'd never had the need to actually use any of it, even with house / employment moves.

So now I keep 18 months tops and bin the rest.
 
Car insurance/ Proof of no claims bonus for one/two years respectively
Entire investment portfolio since I started putting money away (inc pension) about 1993 :o
Bank accounts "yearly summary" for a couple of years
A couple of years worth of pay slips
Receipts for valuable items for a couple of years
Membership docs rotated as per the renewal
and finally all my old college training and work related training certs and doscs.

Everything else in the bin.

One thing that grinds my gears is when someone files things in it's bloody envelope.
Why do people do that ARRGH.. (Mother especially does this)
 
I'm awful at this but getting some ideas from reading this.

Pretty much got all my payslips/bank statements/cheque books stubs (don't ask) since i started working in ....... 1986.

All payslips are delivered electronically these days which I download and store locally (electronically still).

I keep all financial records since the year dot.

I tend to keep all receipts until I no longer have the item and then again, I'm sure I have receipts for items that have long since departed this world..

As you can probably tell, I'm a bit of a hoarder as far as paperwork is concerned.
 
Scan the important stuff and save to Dropbox etc.
Dump it once I have done that. A pain to start with but once your up to date with old stuff the ongoing paperwork that arrives just gets scanned, maybe a couple of things a week.
 
Fuzz said:
One thing that grinds my gears is when someone files things in it's bloody envelope.
Why do people do that ARRGH.. (Mother especially does this)
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I do this, admittedly only with qualifications as I don't get any bills through the post any more. And the only reason I can't be bothered to remove them from the envelopes is because they're certificates and qualifications I may as well burn, they're that inconsequential. (GSCE in Religious Studies you say?? YOU'RE HIRED!!) :p
 
I still live at home and was bought up in a very organised home, since I was born everything has been filed from birth certificates to receipts for goods. I have bank statements that go back probably since I opened my account which wasn't long ago however now everything is online I barely get anything :)
 
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