{"id":1288,"date":"2007-08-27T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/in-pursuit-of-paperless-personal-finance\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T05:16:40","slug":"in-pursuit-of-paperless-personal-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/in-pursuit-of-paperless-personal-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of Paperless Personal Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m swamped with paper. This is partly because I’m a packrat, but mostly it’s due to the never-ending bills, statements, receipts, policies, and special offers that flood my desk. The paperless office<\/a> once seemed like a silly goal to me, but lately it’s become a holy grail. Spurred by Leo’s adventures in minimalism<\/a> and my own desire to get rid of clutter<\/a>, I’ve begun to explore ways to move my money into the 21st century.<\/p>\n Here are eight ways to begin moving toward paperless personal finance:<\/p>\n Paperless personal finance isn’t without its pitfalls, of course. Keep the following best practices in mind if you decide to pursue this route:<\/p>\n I plan to utilize several of these ideas. I’ve already opted out of most junk mail, and I already use Quicken to track my accounts. Now I’m going to sign up for electronic billpay through my credit union. I’m also going to begin scanning bills and receipts, converting them to PDF.<\/p>\n I may not be able to eliminate all<\/i> paper from my life, but I’m going to give it a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m swamped with paper. This is partly because I’m a packrat, but mostly it’s due to the never-ending bills, statements, receipts, policies, and special offers that flood my desk. The paperless office<\/a> once seemed like a silly goal to me, but lately it’s become a holy grail. Spurred by Leo’s adventures in minimalism<\/a> and my own desire to get rid of clutter<\/a>, I’ve begun to explore ways to move my money into the 21st century.<\/p>\n Here are eight ways to begin moving toward paperless personal finance:<\/p>\n Paperless personal finance isn’t without its pitfalls, of course. Keep the following best practices in mind if you decide to pursue this route:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31921],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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