It's Spring -- Do You Know Where All of Your Documents Are?

It's time to weed out your financial papers.

As the weather warms and you gear up for a big spring cleaning, it's also an excellent time to organize your financial papers. This is an important step toward getting your finances in shape.

Creating a filing system that works best for you is essential, but many people proceed directly to creating a paper-shuffling systems of loose papers and folders and forget other details that doom their organizing system.

So while you are cleaning and organizing the rest of the house, here's how to rethink how you store your financial papers and create a better system:

Determine a Central Location

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