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Whether for physical purchases or online purchases, how long do you keep the receipt? Do you discard/delete right away? Keep them for a week in case you need to make a return? Keep them for months or years in case of a malfunction (for electronics), or even longer to look back at what you purchased and when?

When I buy physical games and movies, I keep the receipt and put it inside the case. When I open the case again years later, I'll see when it was I bought it and how long I've owned it. For example, I see that I bought my copy of Baten Kaitos Origins for the GameCube, along with Paper Mario TTYD and Sonic Adventure DX on 12/01/07 from a Toys R Us for less than $20 each. It's one method I have of reminding myself of something from the past.

If it's something expensive I hang on to it

Random groceries? I usually keep for like a week then just throw it away.

Basically forever. They don't take much space and every time I do taxes, they get packed up along with account statements and other tax-related records (and many receipts are tax-related records).