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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

Family Balance Sheet

Some Ideas For Keeping Your Financial Records Organized: For our personal taxes, we keep a present year file for tax deduction documents, such as receipts for charitable contributions, mortgage tax payments, receipts for school and real estate taxes, Goodwill donations, etc. This will help you avoid possible identity theft.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

People opened their windows and used attic fans or sat in metal lawn chairs outside to cool off. Christmas gifts were precious, opened one at a time taking turns, and then examined by everyone present before the next guy got to open theirs. Most of us did not have air conditioned homes. Some of us did not have central heat.

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