A never ending mountain of Paperwork
May 30th 2006, 11:42 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by dbark
I have not been shredding such things as credit card 'pre-approval' letters. I have a letter rack, and have two large clips - one that says Pending, where I clip all bills to be paid and other items that need attention, such as school grade reports. Then I deal with all these items at least once a week before the wad of paper gets too thick. All bills I can, I pay online. Then when I have dealt with the bills/other items, I clip them in the Filing clip, ready to file them in a concertina file. It seems to work quite well, except that I'm unsure when it is ok to throw away or shred paid bills - I have some notion that I should keep them for a year or two!
I throw away a paid bill as soon as the next months bill has been paid. In other words, I keep them for a month after they've been paid. I've never needed to produce any old paper bills so I don't keep them.
May 30th 2006, 11:43 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
What! You don't shred!!!
I'm a shredding fool, if it's remotely linked to us then I shred it!
May 30th 2006, 11:44 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by TruBrit
lol good idea...i might start keeping the pre paid envelopes and have a stuffing spree..lol
May 30th 2006, 11:45 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
I hate going through the mail every day. I make 5 piles. One for shredding, usually CC applications etc., one for recycling, usually store fliers etc, one for him and one for me, the last one is for filing, usually bills that have been paid. I keep a file box in the study that I file the latter in, including one labelled misc. that all the misc. stuff goes into.
I bought a basket not long ago that has a linen liner in it with 'etc...' embroidered on it. All the "oh god what do I do with that?" stuff goes in there until I can figure out what to do with it.
May 30th 2006, 11:45 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by blaze
I throw away a paid bill as soon as the next months bill has been paid. In other words, I keep them for a month after they've been paid. I've never needed to produce any old paper bills so I don't keep them.
May 30th 2006, 11:47 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by Sallyanne
I never shred anything
You should have your hand slapped!
(oh no, forget that, you may like it!) 
May 30th 2006, 11:50 am
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by BrandonBrit
My Mum does that too, her and my Auntie, both in their 70's shove all sorts of things in the prepaid envelopes and send them back to where they came from, they have a right old fine time...they've been known to put ciggy ash, biscuit crumbs, other fliers from other prepaid envelopes... Hiya missus!
May 30th 2006, 12:02 pm
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by blaze
Hiya missus!
You joining us for a bevvy on Saturday then ?
May 30th 2006, 12:06 pm
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by BrandonBrit
Hi back at ya
You joining us for a bevvy on Saturday then ?
You joining us for a bevvy on Saturday then ?
Would love to sweetie you know that!
May 30th 2006, 12:42 pm
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by blaze
I throw away a paid bill as soon as the next months bill has been paid. In other words, I keep them for a month after they've been paid. I've never needed to produce any old paper bills so I don't keep them.
May 30th 2006, 1:11 pm
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by TruBrit
lol good idea...i might start keeping the pre paid envelopes and have a stuffing spree..lol
About once a month we get an envelope in our mail box stuffed with adverts and coupons. I save those and stuff them in the pre-paid envelopes. I would love to see the look on their face when they open in and find a coupon for a free sandwiich at Hardees in Huntsville, Alabama. lolol
If you really want to be mean. Next time you get one from American Express and it contains a letter from the CEO with it, fill out the form in his name using their address. I am sure someone at American Express tries to process it. lolol
And thanks for the karma.
May 30th 2006, 2:09 pm
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by TruBrit
lol good idea...i might start keeping the pre paid envelopes and have a stuffing spree..lol
i have been doing this for a while now too (i think after hearing about AWP doing it - thanks) - but just thought.... if you send it back to them in a non pre paid envelope, will the posties deliver it?? and if so would they have to pay for the missing postage (especialy if u dont put areturn address)
just a thought
Ant
May 30th 2006, 2:30 pm
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Re: A never ending mountain of Paperwork
Originally Posted by antjen
i have been doing this for a while now too (i think after hearing about AWP doing it - thanks) - but just thought.... if you send it back to them in a non pre paid envelope, will the posties deliver it?? and if so would they have to pay for the missing postage (especialy if u dont put areturn address)
just a thought
Ant
just a thought
Ant
