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what to keep, what to purge?

hi everyone:

after following the gtd planning system for a while, i'm finally doing the purge/reorganization (i know, more than a little backwards but i didn't have time before now). in any event, my question for all of you is this: i have kept every single receipt (grocery, bank, clothes, etc) i've received since 1995 (and i won't tell you how much space they've been taking up in my office!). i know i probably don't need all of them, if any. so, how do i decided which ones to keep? which ones to save? is there some kind of "rule" i should follow about the length of time receipts should be saved? any advice would be really appreciated.

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I think for tax purposes,...

I think for tax purposes, you only need to keep records from the past 3 to 7 years. I may be off somewhere, though.

I used to keep all my reciepts, but now I don't keep reciepts for anything other than bank transactions.

 
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