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What do you do with all your bills paper work guarentees etc

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charliecat · 08/11/2004 12:12

I have mine in 3 different folders, all bulging and all in a mess. Have tryed sorting and organising in the past but im such a lazy shit I never keep it up and end up stuffing things in in no order...what do you do with all yours???

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mothernature · 08/11/2004 12:15

Drawers, cupboards, etc it would take me a week to sort them but I think I'd better do it soon lol.

Gobbledigook · 08/11/2004 12:15

With you CC - have 2 lever arch files with plastic wallets in and put it all in there. It does get very full and I have to keep sorting it out but at least I know where to find things!

zubb · 08/11/2004 12:16

As I work from home I have drawers with hanging files in, and so all household things - bills / receipts are filed away.
Well, thats the theory - at the moment there is a towering pile of things waiting to be put away which is in danger of falling over at any moment...
Before I worked from home I just had a big concertina-like file that had everything put away, and box files for older stuff that I didn't think I should throw away.

jampot · 08/11/2004 12:17

dh is very anal about filing everything in individual files within storage boxes although he would love a filing cabinet! He does also keep quotes etc and the shite that comes with M&S bill, credit card bills etc. He wont file statements away without having ALL the receipts attached to it. and we have unbeleivable amounts of paperwork/crap in our dining room on the table which then gets moved to windowsill (!) when we are eating. If I had my way we would keep a year's worth of bills/statements and bin the rest.

NomDePlume · 08/11/2004 12:18

We have them in a hanging filing system. They just get organised/chucked in there and forgotten about.

Titania · 08/11/2004 12:18

I have a concertina type file that I keep all the recent ones in (ie past 6 months) and then when I add one, I take the oldest one out and put it into a boxfile that is kept in my wardrobe. If that makes sense?!?!

Titania · 08/11/2004 12:19

btw.......how long are you supposed to keep statements and credit card bills etc for? anyone know?

NomDePlume · 08/11/2004 12:22

For some reason I have 3 years stuck in my head as advice for how long to keep that sort of stuff, Titania.

Slinky · 08/11/2004 12:24

Well as I used to be a PA in a previous life before children, I have an upstanding filing cabinet - files are alphabetically labelled

It drives DH absolutely potty as I get annoyed with him if he doesn't file everything correctly - but at least I can find everything.

With regards to bank statements/credit card bills - I think you only have to keep for 6 months but I do have ones going back 3 years

nutcracker · 08/11/2004 12:25

I have a folder with most of it in but the the kitchen drawer is stuffed full too.

linnet · 08/11/2004 12:35

oh titania that sounds so organised. I have two file boxes. One has all the most important bills in it that we pay every month, bank statements, credit card etc. The other is broken won't close properly and is filled with junk really. cards dd1 has made, ancient guarantees for things, half of which we probably don't have any more, rent statements etc. I really need to sort that one out as it's such a mess but for some reason find mumsnet much more interesting than filing. can't think why

msann · 08/11/2004 12:49

i have a cupboard i sling them all in....then when they start falling out of the cupboard when its full to bursting i sit down & file them all away......dont rightly know why i dont file them straight away....thats laziness 4 u!

Nikkichik · 08/11/2004 13:30

Ah msann, a ga after my own heart! Mine all get shoved in the kitchen drawer (or in DH's case where ever he happens to be when he opens the letter!) When I can't shut the drawer anymore I spend a happy (!!!!) afternoon sorting them all out into the files that I do have in another drawer!!!! After I've filed them away I always mean to keep it up and be organised but other things always seem so much more important. However, we really should be more organised as forgot a Water Rates payment the other day and go a nasty reminder!!!!

ladymuck · 08/11/2004 13:52

Concertina alphetical file for manuals & guarentees, so manuals and paperwork for DVD and dishwasher are under D (most of the time!)

FIing cabinet for most other things - hanging file by company, except for one or two where we have multiple accounts (eg insurance and endowment and ISA with Legal & General).

Another fireproof box for documents that I must have - birth/marriage certificates/passports/red books etc.

Having a filing tray on my desk with about 2 months worth of stuff ready to be filed...

noddy5 · 08/11/2004 13:55

All in individual labelled box files
Current stuff in a basket on my desk which then gets filed when done.I only keep 3months of bank stuff or it just builds up

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charliecat · 08/11/2004 18:11

So theres more shove it somewhere and wait till it starts overflowing than gleamingly organised then! Nice to hear it!

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lavender2 · 08/11/2004 18:25

all in A4 lever arch files A-Z (have done ever since got married ...but ourintray has stuff in that's 2 years old (tells how good our putting away things are)

tend to keep things for about 3 years and then when they're no longer valid we bin them (MOT's etc get thrown out when get new ones) and they're in the dining room/garage as not yet got a filing cabinet.

cellulitequeen · 08/11/2004 18:37

Guarantees etc in lever arch file in plastic wallets. Everything else in very ordered filing cabinet. I hate being disorganised.

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