Completed! 43–Shred Old Financial Papers

I finally went through the loads of financial papers that I have.  I have kept basically every statement I had gotten since I set up accounts in high school.  I spent a whole night going through and organizing the papers I had into a new file box so I can easily move them.  Then I shredded three entire garbage bags full of old papers! I’m so glad that now I get most of my statements online–I’m not good with dealing with paper clutter to begin with.  Combine that with my hoarding tendencies for anything I am afraid may be remotely important, and you end up with ten years of financial statements to shred. I’m glad that it is done though! Yet another thing I probably would have never done had it not been on this list.