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This isn't primarily for tax purposes either. I have just kept them, and now I want to hold myself to a non-hoarder cutoff of how long I'll keep them.

This isn't primarily for tax purposes either. I have just kept them, and now I want to hold myself to a non-hoarder cutoff of how long I'll keep them.

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I keep them all, but don't bother organizing them. You only need to find one on a rare occasion, so it makes sense not to invest a lot of time on the front end organizing them. Just store them by year and go through them when you need one. At New Year's start a new box, folder, envelope, or whatever.

Sometimes it's interesting to check how the price of things like milk and eggs have changed.

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If it has a lifetime warranty, keep the receipt. I once brought an 11 year old alternator to the auto parts store and got another alternator for free that way.

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I save unique ones to see prices change over time. Have I ever looked? No, one day...

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I've thought there is a good opportunity to crowdsource real receipts over the decades and get true market pricing for the individual buyer.

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Ask your psychiatrist then start the new drugs prescribed.

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It's nice to give jews some charity once in a while.

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Hey, they got the good shit you know man?

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I'm curious about the same. At what point are receipts completely irrelevant for any purpose?

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When you're feeling good you can look at ones from way back and cry at how cheap things were then. I have some going that far back and I don't want to look.

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I'm drowning in receipts. I have to throw 90% of them out, but I shirk the task because each one needs to be destroyed completely so that none of my financial data is exposed. It's a labor I've put off. Meanwhile, the damned things keep building up and up and up. They also need to be sorted, because a small number of them can't be discarded even if they are years old. I started tearing them into little pieces. Now I got a garbage bag full of confetti. And I've still go a mountain of receipts. I don't own a shredder and don't want to waste money buying one. I'm thinking of just separating out the useless ones and having a bonfire of the vanities in my back yard.

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As long as the warranty lasts as proof of purchase. After that, it can be binned. If its tax-related, probably 7 years.

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For taxes, I would go 10 years. That's the statute of limitations for federal income tax violations.

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Typically, taxes go back up to 7 years

in reality, just keep a digital copy and zip each year, it'll take so little space, there is no reason to get rid of them,

for lifetime warranty, keep the paper copy, as previously stated.