It doesn't hurt to packrat old papers,for perhaps the 7 years they used to say the IRS could audit you for, keep home improvement records til you sell the place, etc.

A few times we wound up in class-action lawsuits over fraudulent business. A couple yielded trivial amounts, but one clawed back thousands of dollars for us. But you had to have the old records and document it.

Perhaps the key is to mark a box of old stuff "destroy in 2028" or whatever and then actually do it.