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Despite being promised a “paperless society” we’re still drowning in reams of paperwork.  Find out what you need to keep and what you can toss. Do you all have a “junk drawer” in your kitchen?  Is it filled with appliance manuals to appliances you maybe don’t even own anymore?  Like the juicer, you bought for a long discarded New Year’s Resolution?  Well, you can chuck it.  That goes for electronics manuals too.  You can google any of those.  This searing revelation changed my life, or at least neatened up my junk drawer. Don’t keep bank statements, use Mint.  Many financial statements are paperless now including credit cards, rent or mortgage, and utility statements.  You just have to opt out of paper and select paperless on the company’s websites. This is good for the environment as well.  You know those annoying slick paper ads that are sometimes included in things like cable or internet service statements?  Now they don’t have to send those.  Before I went paperless I use to put them in the envelope wi