#38 OLD RECEIPTS
March 01, 2024
#38 OLD RECEIPTS
© Copyright Andrea Reynolds 2024
My community offers a free Shredding Day to members once or twice a year. The next one is mid-April, so I'm working toward filling as many totes as I can before then. So far, paper to shred has filled 2.5 totes, like the blue-green one below.
I'd already cleared out the files for 1999 through 2017 and the reduced files take up only one half of a clear plastic file box. I keep the federal, state, and local tax return, property tax receipts, Income Summary and Expense Summary, and bank/credit account summaries (not the entire statement) for each year. I don't need grocery receipts, gas and electric bills, etc., but the amounts are noted on the summaries.
It's wise to keep tax files for 7 years, and I found that keeping prior files as well helped me find answers to questions that have come up.
This week and next I'm working on eliminating unnecessary files from my years' receipts for 2018 through 2023.
After I purge 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, the remaining files will likely fill only one file box, not the 14 file boxes I would have today if I had not started to purge pages. Some years's receipts have filled an entire file box; other years, with bigger file boxes I've crammed two years in a file box.
I don't want someone else to dump all my private papers in the neighborhood dumpster for all to see, but I certainly don't want all those file boxes taking up space in my bedroom shelves, or to pay rent to store them one day when I no longer live in my house.
What you see in the two boxes above are 4 years of tax returns and receipts. Eventually they will fill only half a box. It's tedious going through each piece of paper, but I've come across a few little surprises that will serve me well later.
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Any small amount of monetary support helps me acquire credits toward Social Security benefits. With your help I may be eligible by age 80.
If you have an interest in following how I am accomplishing this enormous house-emptying task, I invite you to support this project with a monthly contribution of $5 or whatever amount you're comfortable with. I hope to write two blog posts weekly, more or less.
The benefit to my patrons is you get to ask me questions about my project, and your projects, too, which I may answer in this blog: crisiswriter@gmail.com
PayPal: www.PayPal.me/AndreaReynoldsIntl
Venmo: www.Venmo.com/Andrea-Reynolds-79
FacebookPay: https://www.Facebook.com/andrea.reynolds.90
It's possible Facebook may only allow you to send money by an app on your phone, not Facebook Messenger.
Zelle: Use my email: crisiswriter@gmail.com or text: 656-227-1130
Cash App: Use: $AndeBitanga
Cash: Best delivered in person to be safe.
Shipping is extra: Priority Mail… or for books, I ship by less expensive Media Mail.
I'm happy to receive checks in my mailbox to cover whatever time period makes sense to you. My mailing address: Andrea Reynolds, 1902 Andover Street, APT 194, Sun City Center, Florida 33573-5942
© Copyright Andrea Reynolds 2024
My community offers a free Shredding Day to members once or twice a year. The next one is mid-April, so I'm working toward filling as many totes as I can before then. So far, paper to shred has filled 2.5 totes, like the blue-green one below.
I'd already cleared out the files for 1999 through 2017 and the reduced files take up only one half of a clear plastic file box. I keep the federal, state, and local tax return, property tax receipts, Income Summary and Expense Summary, and bank/credit account summaries (not the entire statement) for each year. I don't need grocery receipts, gas and electric bills, etc., but the amounts are noted on the summaries.
It's wise to keep tax files for 7 years, and I found that keeping prior files as well helped me find answers to questions that have come up.
This week and next I'm working on eliminating unnecessary files from my years' receipts for 2018 through 2023.
After I purge 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, the remaining files will likely fill only one file box, not the 14 file boxes I would have today if I had not started to purge pages. Some years's receipts have filled an entire file box; other years, with bigger file boxes I've crammed two years in a file box.
I don't want someone else to dump all my private papers in the neighborhood dumpster for all to see, but I certainly don't want all those file boxes taking up space in my bedroom shelves, or to pay rent to store them one day when I no longer live in my house.
What you see in the two boxes above are 4 years of tax returns and receipts. Eventually they will fill only half a box. It's tedious going through each piece of paper, but I've come across a few little surprises that will serve me well later.
________________________________
Any small amount of monetary support helps me acquire credits toward Social Security benefits. With your help I may be eligible by age 80.
If you have an interest in following how I am accomplishing this enormous house-emptying task, I invite you to support this project with a monthly contribution of $5 or whatever amount you're comfortable with. I hope to write two blog posts weekly, more or less.
The benefit to my patrons is you get to ask me questions about my project, and your projects, too, which I may answer in this blog: crisiswriter@gmail.com
PayPal: www.PayPal.me/AndreaReynoldsIntl
Venmo: www.Venmo.com/Andrea-Reynolds-79
FacebookPay: https://www.Facebook.com/andrea.reynolds.90
It's possible Facebook may only allow you to send money by an app on your phone, not Facebook Messenger.
Zelle: Use my email: crisiswriter@gmail.com or text: 656-227-1130
Cash App: Use: $AndeBitanga
Cash: Best delivered in person to be safe.
Shipping is extra: Priority Mail… or for books, I ship by less expensive Media Mail.
I'm happy to receive checks in my mailbox to cover whatever time period makes sense to you. My mailing address: Andrea Reynolds, 1902 Andover Street, APT 194, Sun City Center, Florida 33573-5942