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Well it was time
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Got the shredders out and decided to clean some file cabinets of Tax records and rental agreements. Tax record were kept for 7 yrs and the rest is in large garbage bags for the dump. Receipt books will be burnt.
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I need to do the same thing.
Several years ago I found my Great Grandfathers farm ledgers from back in 1901-05. It was quite interesting reading as he always added little quips about the weather or had a visit from so and so on his daily logs.
Glad he didn't shred them but I do understand the piles of paperwork we accumulate takes up a lot of valuable space.
when my mom passed we got some of the boxes from her house ( long story but a lot remained and had been ravaged thru )
any way I found my mom had kept every check stub from my dad since they were fist married in 1956 along with countless other receipts and related paper work . I kept a few from each year and from different jobs he had and a few odd ball items of paper work and burned the rest . a bit sad for 60+ years of paper work to be burned up no one else cared or wanted it . what I kept I will guess will get tossed or burned some time down the road by a family member . seems history of such things just does not hold the interest any younger generations
one paper I found and was surprised ( not that she kept it but found it in out of the countless papers she had hung on too and I will keep . was the sheriff report from the accident in 1958 when we were hit head on by another car and I ended up with 100+ stiches in my face and head
My dad passed a couple years ago, he was born and raised in Yellowstone. His mom was the first lady Ranger in America, his dad was head Ranger, and her dad was the first Superintendent. So you can imagine the historical stuff we have from the early years of the Park, and more paperwork than you can shake a stick at. Ledgers from Old Faithful Lodge. Purchase orders, correspondence between the Park and Washington DC, big 18x24 commendations signed by presidents Coolidge, Roosevelt, Hoover and Harding, trip reports, game census, firewood orders, arrests, car accidents, you name it. Now what am I going to do with it?! We've already sent a pile of stuff to the Smithsonian, and still there are hundreds, thousands of pieces of paper I can't get rid of. It's not valuable to anyone, but it's irreplaceable.
I guess like my dad did, it stays in the trunks and it will get passed down to my kids some day. Hah! Let them deal with it.
If you carted some of that to the "Antiques Roadshow" you might be surprised.
The Roadshow might be a serious winner!!