Keep All Your Important Papers And Statements In Binders

[allergic2average]

If you want more space, instead of using a filing cabinet put all your papers and statements into binders. You save physical space and you can take your binder with you anywhere. I find this very useful because sometimes I want to discuss business at a park or any outside place and it's the easiest way to have physical copies organized. I know the easiest way is to keep everything on a cloud, laptop, etc. but I hate looking at screens for a long time, it puts me to sleep. Plus you can write notes on physical copies. Anyway, hope people find this useful :)

[lizzzi]

Before I was FIRE, one of the places I worked used this method for a lot of things, and I got into it for my job's paperwork. Then I started doing it at home. It works much better for me than piling up things in a bunch of file boxes. I agree that I probably could go more paperless and just leave statements, etc. in the computer, but for me, the binders are easy, neat, and practical. You can keep them on a bookcase. The portability is a plus. For instance, if you have to go talk to the bank about something--just pick up your "Bank" binder and go. Also agree with the convenience of writing notes --good way to have documentation of phone calls you've made.

[DrJohn]

http://gettingthingsdone.com/ has some good tips.  Helped me a lot in sorting "stuff/files" out at home and work.

[kite]

Good tip.  Very important to have physical copies of stuff.   We've got aging parents,  have lived through extended power losses in hurricane season and I'm pretty sure my SO would forget my password in an emergency situation.