This weekend, in a continuation of last week’s activities, I went through the mountain of documents that I’ve accumulated from various banks and credit cards. I meticuously file away these documents, arranged by date, in the event that I would ever need them. Why? Because the instituitions send them to me!

Well from my perspective, that’s a waste of space. So I’ve been working on digitizing the relevant information and shredding the originals. For some things, it’s pretty easy. I can logon to my banking sites and download .CSVs of my transactions and then collate them into a larger spreadsheet. But unfortunately, the banks only keep a recent record so for older records I have to data entry everything myself. Also, it was interesting to find out that my shredder can only handle 50 pages a day before it shuts down (or maybe I just broke it).

I’ve shed myself a lot of papers, but I guess the next big step is for me to actually call these instituitions and stop them from sending me paper copies of everything. That, I think, will actually be more difficult than it sounds.

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