Tagged “retention”
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How long to keep things
This site won't tell you the number, because it isn't one number. What it can give you is a scheme that works whatever the number turns out to be.
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Receipts you keep for reasons other than tax
Warranty, insurance, returns and proof of ownership run on their own clocks. Some of them outlast every other reason you keep a record.
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The cost of keeping everything
Keeping everything feels free and isn't. Volume is paid for in retrieval time, in noise, and in holding data about other people you didn't need.
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Running a disposal review
A retention scheme that never disposes of anything is just an accumulation. Here's the periodic pass that makes it a scheme, without stating any period.
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Where paper survives
Paper doesn't decay at one rate. It decays at the rate its surroundings dictate, and a drawer indoors beats a wallet by a margin nothing else can close.