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.
Personal checks donât expire. But they do become what is known as âstale dated.â Simply put, a check becomes stale dated six months after it was written. After six months, banks have the option of refusing to deposit or cash any stale-dated checks. Why the sixth-month limit? Simple. A lot can change over that period. Companies go out of business.