Government agency: "On what exact date did you move into the apartment you were living in exactly five years ago?" Me: "One second, I'm sure that was on my spousal status of residence application in 2014, which I probably would have thrown away after it was accepted but for DB."
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"Does it even matter? How would they check?" See this is one of those fun things about bureaucracies: they're *very* capable of remembering factoids like that for decades and, depending on their disposition, if your responses don't match their records that can be bad news.
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Dangerous Professional, recently: "You probably won't have all of the documents you need to X, so we'll have the Other Professional assist you in getting substitutes." Me: "I may be slightly more sophisticated than the average person you give that disclaimer to."
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DP: "A lot of people think that but then I ask them for their 2008 tax returns." Me: "You'll have to be more specific because I filed four returns that year. Would you like business or personal, Japan or US?"
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Paper + safe deposit box.
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I have that, too, but it's full, as is the shelf in my apartment where I keep the "Important enough to have on paper but not earthshattering if it burns in a fire" documents. My life generates *a lot* of paper.
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Making a photo slideshow for my wife’s 40th birthday, I was pleasantly surprised when 3/4 of the work was already in the Dropbox folder from 30th birthday slideshow!
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Curious how you organize the folders?
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In case you're looking for generally great advice on this, Stephen Wolfram, whose life seems to contain absurd amounts of documentation, explains his folder structure here: https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/ … Hope it helps
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This and 15 years of Gmail history save me regularly. My wife had to fill out an SF-86 a few years ago for US top secret clearance and they wanted to know the dates we had stayed in certain hotels in Europe ten years prior.
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