Paperwork- what do you keep/bin &howdoyou store it?

[lizardqueenie]

I've always been pretty ruthless at getting rid
Of my paperwork but DH seems to
Have stuff coming through the door every bloody day & the hallway sideboard is overflowing with it. If I sort it out for him (which I'm minded to do when he's away for work
Soon) what do I need to keep & what's the best way to store anything I shouldn't bin/ shred? Ta :)

documents showing births, marriages, passports etc - keep in a separate box or filing cabinet.
Bills keep in a desk-top file and occasionally chuck out (shred or tear up)
Account information keep in a spring file or a box-file in date order
School information keep in a box file in date order
anything else frivolous,like Xmas cards - chuck out.

Anonymosity i do all that but the amount of paper never seems to diminish. I have files and boxes and files and boxes and.....

anniewoo - so do I!! I have car paperwork, house paperwork, guarantees and instructions, school stuff ( x2), health, bills, work stuff, bank statements and tax paperwork etc etc - mostly sorted into the boxes and files and boxes and files, (most of it is probabaly rubbish), but the boxes and files and bags and piles are eating my living room....

I have been trying to tackle this recently, dh runs his own business and we have piles of paperwork everywhere and I can't bear it! so have started scanning (the printer does it!) and saving on an external hard disk of the computer... it takes a while, but at least i can chuck stuff away!! otherwise it's ring binder style folders for us, and a couple of sturdy out the way shelves! g0d knows how much we'll have in ten years time though!!