Listen, kid, we're all in it together.

[tzikeh]

How long do you guys keep all your various bill records, paperwork, and so on?

I know we are supposed to keep tax records for seven years, but how long do you keep old bank statements? Gas bills? IRA income reports? Credit card bills? What about health care information?

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[grace-om.livejournal.com]

Ha! I just shredded a bunch of old bank statements the other day. Damn near broke my little home shredder too. I had stuff going back to 1996, which was ridiculous because I need the file space. I kept them going back to 2001.

Stuff like credit card bills, I tend to keep for about a year. Medical records...depends on what it's about. Standard procedures, whenever I get around to clearing out (which as you may have guessed, isn't as often as it should be). Other stuff, like hospitalization records (childbirth, and a concussion a couple of years ago)...those I hang on to indefinitely.