Filing organisation- what do you keep your mountains of paperwork in?

[Twirl]

So, after retrieving a pile of paperwork from under the sofa, the mountainous piles from the kitchen counter and the box from the study, I have decided that I need a filing system. At the moment different types of papers are in different tatty folders and it makes finding anything near on impossible. So wise housekeepers, please tell me what you store your bills/insurance docs/mortgage docs etc in. I want my study to look neat and have everything orderly! Links please......

[neversaydie]

Manilla nine-fold files, like these www.acco.co.uk/eastlight/product.asp?id=2556&category=342&subsection=460&total=1. They have saved my sanity over the years. Longer-term stuff like life insurance and so-on goes in a metal filing case so can be grabbed in a hurry if we ever need to.