Fall cleaning often includes a tedious sorting of a growing collection of tax records, receipts, bank statements and other records. Then comes the decision about which to file and which to toss.

For the Platte County Court, the mountain of records includes nearly 6,000 new files the court generates each year. The state mandates some of those records be kept for 100 years.

Darla Schiefelbein, magistrate of the Platte County Court, recently received approval from the Platte County Board to spend $1,381.50 for five new file cabinets.

Schiefelbein hopes the expenditure suffices for about the next five years' worth of records storage.

The crunch for storage results from the criteria set by the Nebraska Supreme Court for records retention.