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Over the busy months, you possibly accumulated old, unused accounts and physical documents to get rid of.

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To get started, consider these six ways you canspring clean your finances in 2025.

Plus, having that information recorded somewhere can be valuable in an emergency.

confirm the new budget balances, and watch your spending each month to align with it.

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Its also a good time to enable autopay.

Others, like tax returns and insurance policies, are important to keep indefinitely.

Avoid merely throwing your financial documents in the trash since identity thieves could get ahold of them.

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Instead, use your own shredder or take documents to a community shredding event.

You might also want to switch to electronic statements to avoid the clutter and risks of paper documents.

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