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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

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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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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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Teacher Man presents Why Credit Cards Are Dangerous For Students posted at My University Money , saying, “I am on the record as having said that I believe students should sign up for credit cards. Real Estate. But this is not the same as not “being skilled. We all have skills. Insurance and Risk.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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Larry presents Identity theft protection posted at Objective Financial Planner , saying, “As a threat to your financial security, you should take the potential for identity theft very seriously. Do you have thousands of dollars worth of student loan debt and/or credit card debt?

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