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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

Family Balance Sheet

For other receipts from a credit card for example, groceries or gas, keep until you get your next statement to look for any errors. This will help you avoid possible identity theft. Receipts - Keep until the warranty expires or you can no longer return the item. Retirement/ Savings/Brokerage Statements -. Thanks for reading.

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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. On the other hand… there were no drones, stoplight cameras, computer virus problems, identity theft, angst over credit ratings, amber alerts, full body scanners to enter an airport and etc. Some of us did not have central heat.

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