Auto Empty Folder After 90 days

One of the best things I ever did was to setup a folder in my email that auto empties itself after 90 days.  its great to use as a holding place for emails that I need to hold onto for a short period of time, but then want to make go away.  shipping confirmations are a great example.
I'm interested in doing the same thing with a desktop folder.  I know that time machine and what not gives me recovery options for things I delete, but this is a bit different.  This is for items that I want to delete, just not right now.  What I'd like it to do is delete items after they've been in the folder for some specified period of time, like 60 or 90 days.

There's no easy way to do that.  You'd have to create a script that would scan the contents of a folder and move anything older than 90 days to the trash.  And you'd have to set up a way to run that script repeatedly, on an automated basis.  Someone may have created third-party software to do this, though I'm not familiar with it.
I'd say that you probably don't need that.  Just delete the items, and if your Time Machine backup drive is large enough, they'll stay in the backup for a long time, easily longer than 90 days.  No need for such a temporary repository!

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