i will say that being a pack rat did save my ass when i applied for citizenship.

I had lost my south korean passport and that is generally how you prove that you have been in the US for at least 3 years out of the last 5. I photo copied about 600 pages of bank statements, pay stubs, credit card bills, phone bills, etc and mailed it all to Homeland Security. Within about 3months, I got the letter saying I was to report to the Masonic center in SF to be sworn in as a citizen

now i'm the completely opposite, I shred everything.