Have you looked at the legal requirements for keeping invoices? I need to keep tax records for 7 years. In fact, because you reminded me, I just threw away incoming and outgoing business invoices from 2010.

Nowadays, most incoming invoices arrive by email. I scan the ones I get on paper, back them up on Dropbox and Sia, and throw them away. This makes it easier to find stuff.

Since I stopped reading newspapers years ago, there's not a lot of paper that enters my home anymore. Which gives me time to deal with the hoarding from the past.

Before I moved two years ago, I asked a friend and my sister to help me sort my collections of magazines, souvenirs and newspaper cutouts. By helping I mean repeatedly saying: "No, throw it away!"