What paperwork do you keep, scan, destroy?

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What paperwork are you supposed to keep? What do you scan and what do you throw away?

I've just found a box of bank statements from 2004!
Receipts and guarantees that are long out of date. How do you keep receipts of new things? Scan and throw the hard copy or do you keep it? What about tax papers?

Bills like phone, electric?

Wage slips?

Online clothing purchases (clothes etc)

7 years for tax purposes.

I keep all bank statements, credit card bills, utility bills, tax vouchers, payslips etc.

Most things are filed by tax year. Then when the filing drawer gets full previous years except the last 3 are moved to a filing box and stored in the loft.

Should we ever run out of space or move then I'll get rid of stuff more than say 10 years.

Receipts & guarantees for more expensive things that go wrong eg TV, fridge are stored separately. If the drawer gets full we go through it from the bottom and chuck anything we no longer own.

Receipts for shoes & clothes are pinned on a board until we have gone past the time I would return them if there were a problem. (eg clothes 1 wear, shoes 6 months).