Does the dentist participate in your dental health plan? What is the dentist's office policy on missed appointments? If visiting a dentist's office: Does the office appear to be clean, neat, and orderly? Do all surfaces and equipment in the treatment room appear clean? Is the dental staff helpful and willing to answer your questions?
1 Cancelled checks: Keep for one year in most cases. 2  Discard checks,check registers, check statements and credit-card statements after a year. 3  However,keep checks and credit-card statements needed to support tax filings seven years. 4  Loan-discharge notices: Keep forever in a safe-deposit box.
Discovering an unredeemed check might seem like found money until you consider its expiration date. While some U.S. checks state how long you have to cash them on the check itself, others typically expire in a set number of days after being written. Not only does this encourage responsibility on the part of the check's recipient, it protects the issuer from overdrafts due to lack of funds if a recipient fails to redeem the check before it expires.