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For sale: one filing cabinet
- ojbyrne 18y agoA better solution is to file everything by month. It makes for quicker lookups without slowing down writes.
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- swombat 18y agoHeh, funny. One small problem with shoeboxes: They get lost. Proper lever arch folders have more survivability.
- tom_rath 18y ago...but when you do need that obscure piece of paper you need it right now. Think of a filing cabinet(1) as an exception or error handler. In a perfect world, you could just burn your receipts and statements after you've finished with them. In our imperfect world, it saves you a world of hurt when you can snatch that stuff at a moment's notice. (1)(Do sell the filing cabinet though: Bankers boxes are much easier to move about or squirrel away in the closet).
- jauco 18y agoThis reminded me of http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/12/28/receipts http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/12/28/receipts
- baha_man 18y ago"It takes so long to file the papers into my filing cabinet... I file them into individual folders for bills, insurance, mortgage, etc." I can't quite see how this could be such a time-consuming task.
- huhtenberg 18y agoThis reminds me of an old joke: There are exactly two ways to do the dishes - either after the meal or just before it.
- sown 18y agoAlthough the writes are expensive and very infrequent reads, the cost of having a failed read can be so expensive (like, your house, rapport with the IRS, etc).