shredding

[Steve]

I have just been through my "filing cabinet" and shredded a load of old bank statements, all my old loan paperwork (paid it off this year), two old car insurance certs, and other things I no longer need (accounts im closing etc), and a load of old phone bills (12 months worth) which all had my name and address on - I dont get paper bills now. Also binned a load of leaflets associated with the above.

I feel all "clear" now! Its a nice feeling, like a clean start.

One thing I dont shred though, is payslips. I have 6 years worth of payslips and P60's, since I started working. I dont intend to ever get rid of these.

Anyone else keep stuff like this for "nostalgic" purposes? Something to show the kids when they start working perhaps. "my first ever payslip" etc

 

[cmother1]

.....Something to show the kids when they start working perhaps. "my first ever payslip" etc

That'll be the day!

 

[casius66]

I've still got my 1st payslip from 1983, £45 a week as a trainee Screen Print Technician, they refused to send me to college as other lads they'd employed let them down by not turning up - I decided if they couldn't trust me I didn't want to work there, they offered a payrise to stay but not the college course...left the job but always kept the payslips.

 

[RF Lighting]

I think it's about time you got a new girlfriend Steve...

 

[Steve]

I think it's about time you got a new girlfriend Steve...

Hey im getting there Rob speaking of which, you've been around the forum a bit lately!

 

[MisterG]

I have just been through my "filing cabinet" and shredded a load of old bank statements, all my old loan paperwork (paid it off this year), two old car insurance certs, and other things I no longer need (accounts im closing etc), and a load of old phone bills (12 months worth) which all had my name and address on - I dont get paper bills now. Also binned a load of leaflets associated with the above.

I feel all "clear" now! Its a nice feeling, like a clean start.

One thing I dont shred though, is payslips. I have 6 years worth of payslips and P60's, since I started working. I dont intend to ever get rid of these.

Anyone else keep stuff like this for "nostalgic" purposes? Something to show the kids when they start working perhaps. "my first ever payslip" etc

I've still got my first payslip. I started near the end of the month, so seemed like b*gger all as I I had no tax code too! Had to pay full tax.

 

[conny]

First payslip August 1972 for the pribcely sum of,

wait for it, wait for it!


















£4-10s (£4-50 to you youngsters.)

Trainee piano sprayer.
Stuck it for 2 weeks before getting my apprenticeship as an armature winder/fitter where I earned £12 in my first week!
Yeah!!! I was rich!
Till I got home and mum asked for her housekeeping!

 

[StephenW]

First payslip August 1972 for the pribcely sum of £4-10s (£4-50 to you youngsters.)

So they still paid you in £sd eighteen months after the rest of us had gone deciimal (Feb'71)?

 

[cmother1]

So they still paid you in £sd eighteen months after the rest of us had gone deciimal (Feb'71)?

Hey - we're talking about the 'pool here My dad was still working in old money up until he died in 2004

 

[Diyisfun]

Until recently, I had a sheet with all my pay rates on it starting 1963 £4 p/wk & I used to save £1 week in the post office.
I also saved a score card of EVERY golf course I have ever played.
SAD I KNOW

 

[Blasphemous]

Yeah!!! I was rich!
Till I got home and mum asked for her housekeeping!

I can relate to that conny but I'd do it all again and hand over the lot in a heart beat just to see my mam and dad's faces again.

Until recently, I had a sheet with all my pay rates on it starting 1963 £4 p/wk & I used to save £1 week in the post office.
I also saved a score card of EVERY golf course I have ever played.
SAD I KNOW

Well at least you know!

 

[noseall]

I keep stuff on a seven year cycle.

So, every new year one load of (8yr old) stuff is burned in the garden incinerator and those emptied files are re-labeled for the forthcoming year.

 

[Steve]

I keep stuff on a seven year cycle.

So, every new year one load of (8yr old) stuff is burned in the garden incinerator and those emptied files are re-labeled for the forthcoming year.

Your filing cabinet must be the size of your garage!

 

[conny]

So they still paid you in £sd eighteen months after the rest of us had gone deciimal (Feb'71)

Bloody decimilisation! Can even spell the dammned word!

Biggest rip-off scheme ever imagined.
And I still work in imperial measurements today!
Feet, inches, pounds, ounces, pints, gallons!
Whats wrong with good old British methods?

 

[noseall]

I keep stuff on a seven year cycle.

So, every new year one load of (8yr old) stuff is burned in the garden incinerator and those emptied files are re-labeled for the forthcoming year.

Your filing cabinet must be the size of your garage!

One of the perils of being 'in business'. You are required by law to keep 5 years books, but the accountants recommend 7 years. Mine includes ALL business records and not just accounts.