Is anyone as bad as me ?

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Offline whitesatinmopar

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Is anyone as bad as me ?
« on: June 11, 2009 - 02:51:39 PM »
My little rant this morning got me all hyped up and I started "cleaning house."  Yes, since I'm retired I weekly (or more) run the sweeper and do the laundry. But this kind of cleaning is just ridding out closets, storage cabinets, desk, file cabinets etc.

I am a stasticial nut case, record wise.................sooner or later you just got to clean out the paper work. I have EVERY check stub for EVERY check I have received since I started working full time after high school, mygawd thats 45 freekn years.  :roflsmiley:  I have EVERY tax return for every year I've worked, that is 45+ years ! I have monthly bank statements, electric bill receipts, gas bill receipts, property tax receipts, ................you get the visual idea, a d@mn mountain of paperwork. Hell I'd give some ole poor tree hugger a blimey heart attact, him "seeing" all the trees it took to produce this amount of paper, but I just kept it, I didn't cut them trees down.  :smilielol: .  And to think I moved all that around through 6 states and  11 different address.  My wife thinks I'm a bit  :crazy: and when she sees what I'm doing (I'm not quite done yet maybe by Sat.) she is going to think I might be ready for the big trip   :dogpile: 

Just thought I'd give ya all something to chuckle at and to poke fun at me, not that ya need ANOTHER reason. Got to go..................back to baggin up paper.  :wave:
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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2009 - 03:14:07 PM »
Dang Jim, 45 YEARS??    :roflsmiley:   

As far as I'm concerned, you take the prize....     :2thumbs:   
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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2009 - 03:20:41 PM »
It's easy to do. You definitely aren't alone. I know I do it and I'm still going through some of my dad's stuff because he was guilty of it too. Until this past year I never threw away anything, but something about being unemployed and having time on your hands makes you want to get more organized. I now only keep the past 3 years of stuff and I shred and burn everything else. It's still a lot of stuff, but I know where it is if I need it. After dealing with some identity theft last year I'm more paranoid than ever when it comes to paperwork with personal information whether it's current or not so I destroy it all.
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2009 - 03:42:22 PM »
I used to keep a lot of those things, but I downsized a few years ago.  Now it's tax returns/paystubs/bank statements for seven years, credit card statements for three and utility bills for one.  I have kept all the mortgage papers for every refinance I've done - that kind of thing I won't get rid of.  But everything fits into a Rubbermaid storage box. 

At work, my boss likes for us to keep documents for 10 years, even stuff that we only have to keep for three. 
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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2009 - 06:55:26 PM »
 :22yikes: Whitesatin,sounds to me like you need one of those
paper shreaders on wheels to come over to make your life a little easier.  :lol:
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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2009 - 08:20:51 PM »
Is anyone as bad as me ? ......not a chance in heII.... :poopoke:  :poopoke:  :smilielol:

We only keep records for seven years and it still takes up a lot of space.  We have burnt up three shredders disposing of all that paper.  Know my wife’s company brings in one of those companies that pick up the documents and shreds them and we just add our to their shredding.



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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2009 - 04:36:31 AM »
If your wife has you committed, I call dibs on your cars.

Offline whitesatinmopar

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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2009 - 08:55:55 AM »
Youse guys are harsh  :roflsmiley:  The first bag of paper weighed 70 lb.  :smilielol: I'm going to have a paper bond fire  :2thumbs:

Sorry Ghost.............due to some personal circumstances all the old Mopars are now titled in my wife's name, and like me she'd die for them. But hey, maybe she'd adopt ya as a grandson.  :smilielol:  :smilielol:
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« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2009 - 11:51:18 AM »
I'm guilty too.  42 years of "important" stuff saved in two filing cabinets and moved from house to house.....

I retired and decided (to please wifey   :pullinghair: :pullinghair: ) to shred all the stuff older than 3 years.  It took 3 days.  It was kind of fun though, looking at all the old stuff and reliving the memories.

Now, here is where fate jumps up and bites you.  Less than two weeks after the "Great Shred", I got a registered letter stating that an old financial institution I had used for all my accounts for about 35 years had received a class action judgement against them regarding certain charges and fees they had imposed on account holders.  All I had to do was supply the lawyer with my account numbers and photocopies of statements showing those charges.  Statements?????? guess what I shredded????

The letter said that the average overcharge was between $50 and $150 per year!    :hyper:
$100 X 35 = $3500!!!!!!!!

Now I have started saving every bit of paper again!  At least I will never be nagged about THAT again!!!
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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2009 - 03:15:58 PM »
Jim,

  This is the IRS. What the heck is with your 1970 1040 tax form?? I'm hauling you in buddy.   :lol:

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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2009 - 09:32:52 PM »
I hear ya. I'm a hopeless packrat by nature. Yes, I have check stubs going back to college, too!

What I did do is buy a hopper-fed scanner. I've been slowly scanning in mountains of documents, and then throwing the documents out.

I've also scanned in all my old mopar magazines and thrown the originals out (they had to be cut anyway in order to be scanned). Now the mopar magazines are my computer's screen saver!

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Re: Is anyone as bad as me ?
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2009 - 07:43:36 AM »

I've also scanned in all my old mopar magazines and thrown the originals out (they had to be cut anyway in order to be scanned). Now the mopar magazines are my computer's screen saver!

I beleieve I'd either just kept the Mopar rags or took them to a swap meet and sold them, some nut like me would probably buy them and take them home.  :roflsmiley:
1969 Polara 500 vert.
1970 Charger 500
1971 Dart Swinger
1972 R/R 440+6 (wanabe)
1973 Challenger