Magento hide My Orders and My Cart from sidebar

We decided to hide the My Orders and My Cart from the sidebar. This requires minimal programming effort and only the local.xml has to be edited and can be found here:

\apps\design\frontend\default\default\layout\local.xml

Within node:

<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar"/>
            <reference name="left">

Add following lines:

<remove name="cart_sidebar"></remove>
<remove name="sale.reorder.sidebar"></remove>
<remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar"></remove>

Voilà!