and I had the piss taken out of me for asking £7k for mine -- 18 mths younger .... you should see what some folk're asking for 84s/5s .... and appear to be getting it ..... as I said - if it didn't make it, it'd stay here ... been climbing steadily before all the latest price madness .. guy who bought it was well happy to find such a tidy example
) ...... invoices in and out plus everything else relating to the relevant period. 
Neat pile and and 5L of cherry?been a bit of a boring sort of day ...... but a milestone with it ...... been burning paperwork ALL day ... 4 filing cab.s-worth -- well almost ... just got this lot to finish off with ...( two draws -- fourteen gone up in smoke today
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my seven years was up this week - as far as the tax man's concerned - since i wrapped up my final accounts ....... Accountant said hold onto everything for seven years and keep 12 yrs -worth
thought i'd never get the draws emptied ... been at it for eight hours solid ... can't just drop it in in armfuls ... it just won't burn .. half a dozen pages at a time and keep it 'stirred up' ... printed pages bloody stink ... and so do I, like a kipper ... looking forward to a shower in a minute.
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If only it was that simple, paper just doesn’t burn that easily. The other alternative is a paper shredder, one I have had a duty cycle of about 6 sheets of A4 then it needs to cool down.Neat pile and and 5L of cherry?
yeh ... been waiting 7 years to get this done .... empty the cab.s and free up some more space in the box ..... I'd already burnt probably 3-4 times as much, back in '13/'14 .... huge quantities of processed tree ... 12 cab.s full plus God knows how many boxes of archived stuff.
sadly LL, it just won't do it .... takes forever in reams .... needs air between it all to combust.Neat pile and and 5L of cherry?
... blown incinerator'd be the only way, or shred it first .. and sod that ... too many staples anyway yeh the staples're the issue with shredding it and sod paying anyone to do it ... could n't just dump it ... lots of personal tax stuff, etc., in amongst it all for employees .... had to get the torch
not thought of that as a solution Jim ... if it went in in reams, possibly quite some time, but'd be unreadable very quickly and'd not sink, or float out either
.... not worth the effort now, for what's left, but'd've been ideal at the start. ..... would've been a fair hole ............ and then I'd have had a fair pile of spoil to contend with
you'd want a bloody big piece of ground to make it pay successfully though ... and an electric 20 tonner to bury it good an' deep initially, so's you could keep coming back for a few more layers as the patch filled up ....... but then the leccy has to come from somewhere
plus the haulage, handling, etc., etc. ....... nah burn it
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If it's anything like the big ones once it's got a bite it's going in
Yep that’s exactly what I do with archived paperworkbeen a bit of a boring sort of day ...... but a milestone with it ...... been burning paperwork ALL day ... 4 filing cab.s-worth -- well almost ... just got this lot to finish off with ...( two draws -- fourteen gone up in smoke today
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when the bin cools down enough for me to empty it .....
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my seven years was up this week - as far as the tax man's concerned - since i wrapped up my final accounts ....... Accountant said hold onto everything for seven years and keep 12 yrs -worth
thought i'd never get the draws emptied ... been at it for eight hours solid ... can't just drop it in in armfuls ... it just won't burn .. half a dozen pages at a time and keep it 'stirred up' ... printed pages bloody stink ... and so do I, like a kipper ... looking forward to a shower in a minute.
last line drawn
I just reached 7 years vat registered. Rewarding burning the contents and re using the document folders. God I'm tight.Yep that’s exactly what I do with archived paperwork
Burning barrel and handful at a time. Gotta educate SWMBO not to put whole books or diaries etc on it
Now got a whole 12 years worth from when I went self employed. Next year I’ll start thinning them out for when I wrap this chapter up