Filing cabinets and organising paperwork

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I want to cry because we have so many bloody piles of paperwork everywhere.

I currently have box files but they are completely disorganised and I need to start over.

Am thinking of buying a filing cabinet.

Do you get what you pay for (the prices seem to vary MASSIVELY when I've been looking online)...

Any other tips on keeping on top of the paperwork. DH and I are both clinically USELESS.

We have a filing cabinet and it keeps all essential papers only for example birth certs, marriage certs, title deeds, guarantees and receipts. We also have scanned copies of the important stuff.

Bills, statements, receipts (where possible- Apple email receipts for eg) are kept on the computer as we get them emailed to us and not paper copies. Cut down as much as possible what you receive as paper.

Once every 6 months (put a note in your diary) go through your filing cabinet and remove everything that is past its useful date. For example if an item is out of guarantee period there is no point in keeping the receipt.

I suggest you google unclutterer.com and filing solutions.