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May 23, 2006
You're The Inspiration
Miss L my thoughts were on you all day yesterday as I cleaned out my filing cabinet where we keep old receipts. It’s only a small cabinet with two drawers, but it tends to get messy and crammed full of papers that do us no good.
I will admit that keeping bills for a period helps in some situations. For example, doctor’s receipts come in very handy at the end of the year when they are balancing their books and want to tell you that you still owe money. We still have our tax statements from when we were first married. For the most part though, I think after the bill is paid and a while has past, you can safely shred the receipts.
Here is the pile of receipts we did not need:
It doesn’t look too bad in that picture, but it is. It took Ashley and me an hour to shred all that. It was fun for her at first, but after a while, she was bored and quit.
I filled two garbage bags full of junky papers that were taking up valuable space in my filing cabinet.
You inspired me Miss L!
Posted by tami at May 23, 2006 9:19 AM
Comments
Hey that's a first!! But I want to know why you didn't compost the bills, they make brilliant compost in amongst all the garden waste. It's also a good feeling to find wonderful compost being made from al those horrible bills!
Posted by: Miss L at May 29, 2006 4:07 PM