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Organize Your Financial Documents | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. My home office back in 2012: I had financial papers all over the place back then and it took a snow storm where I was stranded indoors for me to take the time to organize our documents and our filing cabinet. Read it here: How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents?

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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

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Are your financial documents piled up in the corner of your office or under your desk? So much is done electronically now, but there are documents where a paper copy is needed. ALSO , if you are self-employed, you should keep your returns and supporting documents for six years. So, I googled my question and here is what I found.

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Organizing Your Computer

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Maybe I am a bit OCD because I went home and looked at my computer and cleaned it up and organized it until it was perfect. Organize them into folders and alter them as you need to. For instance, I have documents that I would like to keep of projects from school, but I don’t use them or refer to them regularly.

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How Do You Organize Paperwork, Both Online and Off?

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Today, I'm answering a question posed to me by BlogHer's Life Well Lived Campaign, "how do you organize paperwork, both online and off?". I have written before about how I organize our offline paperwork: My Binder System for Organizing My Office and My Life. How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents. Baby steps.

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How To Organize A Project

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Pretend that the project is a manual, guide, or a long document of some sort. Copy and paste links into a document. The list doesn’t have to be organized yet, because the idea is to just get everything down. Organize The List. After making the list, organize it into sub topics. Make A Bulleted List.

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Update #3 | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. Organize Your Financial Documents. Budget Financial Freedom Financial Organization' By the end of the month, my goal is to help you have a detailed financial plan for your family. Please refer back to the original post for a complete list of daily assignments. Short on Cash?

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Foods You Need to Buy Organic, and Foods You Don’t

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My grandmother, who turned 102 earlier this year, remembers when “organic” wasn’t even a word used when talking about food. Before it became a “fad”, a “necessity”, or a “ripoff” (depending on who you ask), everything was organic. But back to the “organic” issue at hand. Strawberries. Sweet Bell Peppers.

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