The Spring 2008 Haus Charlottenburg purge continues!

[martelvonc]

Today saw me moving my desk out of the dining room and into the basement. I got tired of seeing the mayhem and foolishness that was my desk right next to where I needed to eat. Beside all my crafts and SCA projects and research books are all in the basement. Having my desk near all that only made sense.

We are purging bits and bobs slowly but surely. This Thursday I will be-
1) going to the NESAP shop to drop off 3 bags of clothes,
2) the Swap Shop at the landfill to leave an old chair and a fireplace mantle,
3) the dump part of the landfill to get rid of the old fireplace parts,
4) Walmart to get two more clear storage bins for winter clothes and Erica "crap"
5) load the truck for ToC on Saturday.

busy busy busy!

I keep repeating a quote I heard a while ago,
"If you had to move tomorrow, would you really want to take it with you?"
If the truthful answer is no, then out it goes.

Comments

[elfsea-escapee.livejournal.com]

I was a little bit virtuous, too. After finishing my taxes today, I did the annual Filing Drawer Purge. I ditched all my 2006 receipts, and plan to go through the Medical and Dental folders tomorrow & purge them up till, oh, maybe last June. How much history do I need to keep, after all?

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Excellent!
I'm always amazed at how much paper there is to ditch at the end of the year.

Let's see I Keep-
*7 years of banking and IRS records.
(IRS can only investigate back 7 years)

*current year of credit card, utilities bills, etc.

*one year of medical receipts especially since I have one of those medical savings plans. Or just current year to be sure claims are paid.

Also keep-
*All of your investment statements so when you go to sell stocks you don't have to pay to recreate the information for gains/loss reporting on your income taxes.

[elfsea-escapee.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - I know what it is that I need to keep and what I can get rid of. Duke Power bills, which I can access on-line, anyway, do not need to be kept. And it's far enough since last Christmas that I don't need to worry about the receipts, again, since I have electronic copies of most of them anyway! So it's time for another "reduction of paperwork" act.

I also went through all my murder mysteries and now have three full paper bags to take to the used book store. And I have the most part of an empty bookshelf to accomodate the overflow from my garb books and any new history books I might care to purchase.

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

BG&E lets me have e-bill too but they still send a paper one. How crazy is that? I even have auto-billing on the budget plan.

Whew! I can see we are all glad it's spring again!