Trying to de-clutter – How long to keep old bank statements for?
I haven’t received either type of statement in the mail for years. I do all my financial transactions on line. My bank allows me to go back about three years to view anything that’s happened to my accounts, and I think it’s an easy matter to request information from them that goes back even further than that. If you worry that the bank’s Web site might somehow suddenly shut down and lose all your data, then just download and save a copy of your financial records onto your hard drive on a regular basis. There’s no need to have any of those pieces of paper in your home.
