Keeping Household Bills

[jamescodriver]

Not altogether sure this should be here but...

How far back do you keep personal paperwork?

I'm thinking energy bills, bank statements, that sort of thing?

[fatvik]

Three to six months mate.
-FV

[Simpo Two]

If you're self-employed and they play any part in your books, six years. If not I suppose it's up to you.

[Megaflow]

Utility bills for 1 year.

Bank statements and pay slips 3 years.

Anything tax related, forever... They just can't be trusted!

[mattdaniels]

You get paper bills? How quaint.

[K50 DEL]

I keep all bills forever, be they credit card or gas bills, everything gets filed away subdivided by company into a date order.
Proved very handy a few years ago with the bank charges reclaiming thing I tell you!

[Simpo Two]

mattdaniels said:

You get paper bills? How quaint.

It's a way of seeing stuff in seconds without having to fire up a computer, go to a website, have several goes remembering your username, password, secret and special word and then poke around in some menus trying to arrange it in the right order

[BliarOut]

K50 DEL said:

I keep all bills forever, be they credit card or gas bills, everything gets filed away subdivided by company into a date order.
Proved very handy a few years ago with the bank charges reclaiming thing I tell you!

This. You never know when you may need to prove something when all other records have been deleted.