Do you keep receipts for everything?

[PeterJohnson]

If you order something online e.g. shoes or a coat. Do you keep the delivery and invoice papers which come with it? Do you scan and throw? Do you do neither as once you've worn it, you cant return it? What about email confirmation of orders, do you keep them?
DH throws everything. I was taught to keep everything but I'm drowning in probably useless bits of paper and saved files!

How do you manage this stuff?

After two years even big purchases, say a printer, can't be returned, we it was two years under EU consumer protection laws it's probably one year now.

Anything that might be quizzed by insurance, so £250+ I would keep for that purpose.
Anything I could be bothered returning up to two years if it broke unreasonably I would keep.

Anything about £30 might keep for a month.

So depends on how much effort v cost it would be if it broke or frayed.

House - yes. But buildings is £1m and contents tens of thousands.
Car - yes. Again tens of thousands
Foreign travel - yes. Again tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands if something awful happens.

Kettle - absolutely not. If it breaks outside the free warranty period I buy another one for £50.

Every receipt?

I keep the emails, order and delivery. Thats it. No paper.

Yes—I add them as soon as I get them.

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I keep every email confirmation and have done for about 20 years - all in the same email account. I just file into a folder once the item has been delivered.

It's been incredibly useful for being able to think 'I really loved that x I bought years ago, I wonder if I can still get it?' and being able to look back at the exact make/model/brand of x.

I never keep physical paperwork and have never missed it.

Oh and yes, it was also very useful to find values of everything I own for international shipping purposes a few years back.

I have an email address just for shopping. All the receipts are in there.

Some shops keep your receipts in your online account, JL do, so saves keeping emails and paper receipts if they do.

My mother keeps EVERYTHING. My parents recently moved house and it was a downsize. Well, she produced boxes of receipts, some predating me and insisted she couldn’t throw them. They’re now in the loft of their bungalow.
We had a look through some and found the receipt for the rocking horse they bought me for my 1st birthday in 1991. Also found the receipt for carpets for their first home in 1988.