Happy birthday Jessica!

and nope I don't keep them , but then again I shred them after 3 months ( okay so I have much more than that to shred right now...

I keep them, and I'm getting annoyed with how much space they take up, but I don't have a shredder, and I don't want to just toss bills. We should get a shredder soon.

Speaking of, do people keep bank statements, and if so, for how long?

hivemind question - do people keep bills for credit cards, electricity, phone, etc. once paid? if so, for how long?

When I get around to shredding, I generally shred everything over a year old, except utility because it is good ammo when arguing that my a/c or heat is broke. Key point is...when I get around to shredding. Usually happens when the accordian files I keep them in threaten to explode.

I keep tax and health (vet) stuff forever.

So I went to do laundry and they changed the locks! On the 7th. Since I only do laundry every 2 weeks.... Oy. One of my neighbors lent me a key, so at least that's sorted out.

Vacuum monster to start roaring as soon as I do my lunch dishes. Then I need to go out and get cash. Maybe. It's gross out.

The nephew called me to settle a debate with his dad: Are there dinosaurs at the McLaren Center? (Answer:no, but I didn't know that.) He was very insistent that there are. Reminds me of someone...his dad!

I've got too many. Like I'm just waiting to say "Prove I didn't pay,"

Oh, more cute: J's been taking him into the lab on occasion. This weekend, they did "experiments" together, namely that phenal-something that changes from clear to yellow or purple depending on acidity or baseness. He also did some other change/bubble/stink type chemistry, and D LOVED it! He now has his own collection of test tubes (!!!!) and a petri dish that he insisted on gluing a plastic bug in. He's calling it his 'spurmint and it is going everywhere with him.

Chemists are so cute when they're little!

I keep tax stuff forever, and throw everything else away, because I'm so disorganized that if I kept it, it would become a pile of undifferentiated paper in which I could find nothing important anyway.

Hi. I was away. Life is strange. I'm back now.

I just had the freakiest lunch of my life. I was eating at the juice bar of this crunchy-granola co-op deli, and the developmentally disabled woman next to me kept patting and rubbing my shoulder and waving her hand around in front of my face and over my food as she got more and more animated in conversation with the person at the next stool over. Note to self: not a good place to eat for touch-avoidant people.

do people keep bills for credit cards, electricity, phone, etc. once paid?

Yes. Five years, and then they get shredded. I have no idea where I pulled 5 years from (possibly my hindquarters), but it's in my brain and my filing cabinet can accomodate that without difficulty.

He now has his own collection of test tubes (!!!!) and a petri dish that he insisted on gluing a plastic bug in. He's calling it his 'spurmint and it is going everywhere with him.

Awwwww! A world of bless.

a petri dish that he insisted on gluing a plastic bug in

Hee!

if I kept it, it would become a pile of undifferentiated paper in which I could find nothing important anyway.

This is my problem. I hate filing at work, I hate filing at home.

I just made lunch (linner), and I think I must be 9 years old. I'm eating mac and cheese with hotdogs in, and drinking orange soda. I mean, seriously.

Happy Birthday, Jessica!

Grey and rainy day here. I napped on the couch for a lovely hour or so just now. There's laundry to do and a kitchen to clean, but... not yet. I'm sure I have a show or two to catch up on first.