Contact the National Opt-Out Center (888-567-8688) or log on to the Direct Marketing Association’s website (www.dmachoice.org) to have your name removed from marketing lists, stop junk mail and prescreened credit offers.  Bonus: You can get off telephone and e-mail lists.

Eliminate Unwanted Catalogs: www.catalogchoice.org

Stop Telemarketers:

Contact the National Do Not Call Registry (www.donotcall.gov) or call 888-382-1222 to register your home number and cell number.

Record Retention: Contact ARMA International’s Records Retention Guidelines at

http://www.arma.org/pdf/articles/DevelopingRecordsProgram.pdf.

Retention guidelines for taxes and some records available at the Internal Revenue Service website at www.irs.gov