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[halfpint1]

• As soon as I get my Visa and bank statments and they are correct I shred them. My husband died last year and there must of been 20 years of statement etc. that I shred. I can't see it that long but I kept about 10 years just in case. Now junk stuff is another thing he kept. I don't want my  money business on the internet.

[Desertdi]

I am still going thru my ma's 67 years of records (since the day she got married.)     I toss my own stuff when the file folders get too full.

[reiki604]

I used to save everything but then I requested paperless notices and statements. I download them onto a thumb drive. Makes life so much easier and no paranoia about losing anything in the cloud.

[SydneyH]

Two years or so, my tax returns are filed digitally and bank statements can be downloaded for 3 years back...........

[Marienkaefer2]

7 years.

[ladyroxanne]

@house_cat

\that's my hubcat in a nutshell!  lol

[Lipstickdiva]

I keep tax returns for 10 years and shred the rest.  I toss pay stubs the day I get paid.  I can always get another copy if need be.

I pretty much save nothing, not even bank statements. Everything is available with on-line banking.  I don't even get EOBs mailed to me anymore.  I get them online at the insurance website.     

We do get medical bills mailed to use and I pay none of them until the EOB is finalized and I see exactly what my insurance paid and what the EOB says we must pay. If that matches our medical bill, the bill gets paid on-line.  I do print the receipt and put it with our tax stuff.  So all of that gets saved for 10 years. 

If for some reason we would be audited, I like to have our returns with all back-up information right with that return.  We have rental properties so I have receipts to back up all expenses, bills, etc.