So I’ve been scanning, archiving, and backing-up Dad’s old files. The old income taxes dating far back as 1970 have taken too long because the stupid scanners are TOO slow in rendering duplex, color images. I expect faster processing but this is the price we consumers pay over what businesses/professional can afford.
For the first time and after a few minutes ago, I see the “Final Loan Statement” and old receipts, including my “Offical (Cashier’s) Check” for the necessary funds to pay-off the Variable Interest loan on this old house. The date was: 7/11/1995. The amount was $11,11x.xx. The check number was xxxxxx3112. Notice the double-digits!
I still have these two buckets to process and it’s wearing me down. I forgot my “Back Joy” butt support and I thought I would have had hemorrhoids from sitting long hours behind this laptop computer, but didn’t. I thought I would have had thrombosis of my lower extremities, but jiggled my big-ass on the ZAAZ machine.
I’m pushing out this project before the holidays, my upcoming birthday, and the new year because I don’t like keeping old stuff. I’ve yet to donate a few more material trinkets but can’t seem to let go of those. I’m planning to work on Dad’s old journals/diaries and will post those on my third WordPress.com blog account called: The Flynn Files. Stay-tuned!
Mom’s sentiment is that she has no grand-children to pass on this crap. So I’ll mysteriously donate my hard-drive, say to the NSA. OMG! I would love to work for the data center and archive the stuff that no-one really cares about! I’m trying to get rid of records based on retention periods: tax returns no more that three years, the rests no more than seven to ten years.
Bah!
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