To think my DH doesn't actually NEED to keep nearly 24 years of payslips

[neverputasockinatoaster]

Just that really!

I too remember Mr Trebus - he was an amazing and very troubled man.

jamaisjedors - Yes, there is other clutter I could get rid of. I am, in fact, slowly getting rid of all the things I have been afraid to throw out in case DH somehow disapproved. Please note this does not mean DH is controlling - I am a 'people pleaser' and spend my life trying to guess what people might think about my actions..... I know DH finds it hard to get rid of stuff and so I then extrapolate that he might be upset if I get rid of my stuff......

I needed mine from my first teaching job ten years ago recently as I decided to show an interest in my pension. I wanted to check I'd paid into one from the beginning because I started at a private school. When I checked my pension statement it hadn't registered a year's work I'd done between having 2 kids and my payslips showed I'd paid in during that time, so I was glad I've kept them all! Could probably chuck statements from 20+ years ago though!

In France, where they love paperwork, you have a list of official documents and how long you should keep them for. Payslips are supposed to be kept for life, as are employment contracts. Electricity and phone bills should be kept for 5 years etc etc. School certificates for life.

If anyone reads French and is interested here is the official advice: vosdroits.service-public.fr/F19134.xhtml

I chucked a lot a couple of years ago, they went back 30 years, plus similar amount of bank statements, car insurance docs etc. Kept all P60s and one payslip from each job. Also keep all letters with job offers, pension info etc. I got a state pension forecast last year which tallied exactly with reality and regular statements from all my company pensions, so I should be ok.

yanbu
as long as he keeps all his yearly tax statements...

Mother and wife of pack rats here Ds needed his he had kept them nearly stacked together in the closet and moved counties, the company he had worked for her was sold and he had no proof he wored for them except the pay slips, the wanted first last and couple in the middle. So that worked out.
I've been throwing Dh's in the fire after 5 years, only saving the main tax papers that also show who he was working for and how much he earned.

I keep a year or so and I have kept all my p60s. I wish work would do payslips electronically. My bank statements are electronic and I shredded all the paper ones I had. I have switched everything I can to online statements. I hate paper!

Disclaimer this all stems back to when I first started as an accountant and as dogsbody I would be given boxes of clients paperwork for a year and have to sort it all.

Agree with andubelievedthat. I worked from 16-21 in full time jobs (health service etc) that were so badly paid I didn't get full stamps credited for those very hard full-time years of work. Seriously, split shifts, nights etc.... I know I'm very old but it was in the early 70's when we girlies didn't even get paid the same as the chaps. I was livid when I found out years later, and have kept all my payslips in case I ever need to challenge it for my pension - if I ever get there the way they keep putting the age up!

If you're that worried can you not scan them and save electronically?

Just think of the hours and hours and hours of fun scanning? :)

Just remember if you hoard all this stuff, that at some point someone will have to get rid of it. My sister and I spent a week last summer shredding my late Dad's bank statements (and other paperwork) which he had saved from 1960, - there were hundreds of the buggers. And it's not a particularly fun job

My (lovely, kind, wonderful dear departed) dad's logs go back to 1971 when he started work aged 16.

He was a trawlerman; ended up as skipper / owner of his own trawler.

I would never part with them.

ok it is your call, but ! as i am "old" i have experience of meeting with tax officials /bank undermanagers/loan people when there has been a disagreement and to keep this 2nd post short , when they said "have you any proof of that" my heart sank/memory flashed back to me binning said "proof" docs,they may not entirely finalise the prob u/me /anyone may be having but they go a way to backing up your claim .and trust me on this one , it"s sods law, the day after you shread them is the day you need them.(cheery, aren"t i)

My MIL has Alzheimer's and had 65 years worth of paperwork which she spread all over the house. I have spent weeks of my life sorting it. I am going to keep mine to a minimum, don't want to end up like that.

oh yes he does.