Do you do regular clean outs of your financial life? A while ago I brought up De-Cluttering Financially, and it’s importance in your financial life. At the time I had many old and tatty securities lieing around my financial world and I really did need to clean up.

Since then I have pretty much cleaned up those crappy old mutual funds, however I have also cleaned out:

• A bunch of Common Stock holding that I had, that were doing me no good (including some left over Nortel), any money made from those sales went into Index Funds and/or ETFs.
• Some remaining useless mutual funds that needed to be gone (again all money funneled back into my passive Index Investments).
• I had and RRSP and a LIRA disappear but that was doing a service buyback into the Federal Government Pension (expensive, but worth the money). Two less things to worry about.
• A couple of old investing accounts that were hanging around as well (two RESPs for two of my kids, which now are at zero. I thought I closed them, but they persist to live on, it seems)

I do have 1 more thing I need to get rid of and that is a perfectly useless LIRA set up with Sun Life that I need to transfer into a much better investment fund. This one is a messy old thing that I had forgotten about and it has given me almost 1% growth over the 15 years I have held it (yes, the only thing worse I could have done is left it in Nortel).

How goes your financial de-cluttering? Getting it done?