[GNC] Removing old transactions

[Liz]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:12:25 -0600
Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I don't understand the desire to filter 'old' transactions.
> 
> Why is their very existence some sort of 'stain' that needs to be
> hidden?
> 
> Are they hurting anything? Do they somehow get in the way of
> something?
> 
> Do folks regularly scroll through ancient transactions and get miff'd 
> that 'old' stuff is there to scroll through?
> 
> I guess I'm not seeing a use-case for getting rid of data.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien

My financial records date from 1995, so extend over more than 30 years.
They are the only consistently held records I have made.
So if I want to know how many fridges I have had in a long time, or how
long a particular fridge lasted, my financial records are the source.

While the numbers may no longer be relevant the earning and purchase
records tell me many things about those last 30 years.

I can understand that if your tax authority can decide to go back as
far as it likes you may wish to make those records invisible. I am not
subject to that sort of enquiry, so I choose to keep all my records
together.

For a fun demo, here are my grocery bills from 1997. I think 1997 is
incomplete.
There are no prizes for working out when my teenage boys left home for
Uni.

Liz
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