Do you keep your WHOLE paycheck package, or just the tear-off portion?

I have direct deposit for my paycheck, and I get a thick-paper tear-apart envelope in the mail every two weeks with all my tax/withholdings/YTD/etc. stuff on it. At the bottom, there's a little tear-off stub that would ordinarily have my check. But, since I get direct deposit, it just has the amount of my pay.

Should I keep the whole thing, or should I just keep the stub? I get all my tax info in January anyway (in W2 form).

 

[minendo]

I keep it all.

 

Originally posted by: minendo
I keep it all.

Yeah, it seems like the most responsible thing to do, in case I ever get butt plugged (read: audited).

 

[radioouman]

I keep it all too.

 

[notfred]

I don't keep any of it.

 

[thawolfman]

I get Direct Deposit and don't keep anything.

 

[Ameesh]

pirates are sweet!

 

[RichieZ]

I have direct deposit and i get EPS: electronic payment statement.

 

[TheToOTaLL]

I have direct deposit as well, and don't event get a payment statement! Thats one of the downsides of working for a small company, besides no dental

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: RichieZ
I have direct deposit and i get EPS: electronic payment statement.

 

[Tsaico]

If you are in a position to get audited, IE this is not a job, but your career, then you should keep everything and do so for five years.... If this is just a part timer or just a job to get you by and you do not plan on being there more than a few months, don't bother... the w-2 at the end of the year should be enough

 

[conjur]

I read it and toss it. I keep one once in a while but what's the point? I've rarely ever needed a paycheck stub.

 

[HappyPuppy]

My wife has all my paycheck stubs going bac 30 years. Yeh, I need to start getting rid of some of the crap she saves.

 

[edro]

I have a stack, taller than 4" of paystubs, sitting on top of my monitor, un-opened from the last 2+ years... I have direct deposit, so I could give a crap less what's in it. You shoulda saw the look on the janitor's face when he asked me about them and I told him that I never cash them, I just work because I like to.

 

[JonTheBaller]

Originally posted by: edro13
I have a stack, taller than 4" of paystubs, sitting on top of my monitor, un-opened from the last 2+ years... I have direct deposit, so I could give a crap less what's in it. You shoulda saw the look on the janitor's face when he asked me about them and I told him that I never cash them, I just work because I like to.

lol!

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
My wife has all my paycheck stubs going bac 30 years. Yeh, I need to start getting rid of some of the crap she saves.

All scanned and put into Paperport as pdf's incase I ever need to check anything....
Bill