Book Title: Organise Your Life - Free yourself from Clutter & find more personal time
Author: Roni Eisenberg with kate Kelly
Year written/published: 2007
Summary: Organising in all facets of life… Life, Household, Kitchen, Holidays, Traveling, Office… etc.
My Comments: Very useful book!
Some extracts:

Toss Every month:

• ATM and Bank deposit slips
• Credit Card receipts
• Sale receipts and minor purchases

Toss after 2 years:

• Monthly bank and credit card statements
• monthly or quarterly brokerage and mutual fund statements after you’ve reconciled them with your year end reports
• monthly mortgage statements
• phone and utility bills
• paycheck stubs after you’ve reconciled them with your annual tax filling

hold until sold:

• confirmation slips for securities
• real estate deeds
• home improvement records

Retain for 7 years:

• Tax filling
• year end statement from credit card companies
• phone and utility bills if you deduct for business expense
• cancelled checks and receipts’ statements for annual mortgage, interest and property taxes, deductible business expenses, child-care bills, out of pocket medical costs

keep indefinitely:

• annual tax returns
• year end statements from financial service companies
• confirmation slips of purchase price of any investments you own
• papers that indicate beneficiary designations

Clean office desk space…

• blotter
• telephone
• cloc
• calendar (if you use paper system)
• address book (if you use paper system)
• pencil holder
• paper clip holder
• stapler tape dispenser