How do you store your paperwork?

[BoysRule]

I am soon moving house and want to rethink how I store our paperwork - I mean things like car insurance documents, utility bills, bank statements, receipts, passports etc. We don't have a lot as most of it is paperless now.

We currently have these www.amazon.co.uk/Metal-home-file-A4-red/dp/B000TK30Z8/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1389795750&sr=8-8&keywords=box+file

but they are bulky and difficult to use. I was thinking just box files on a shelf but then everything will be mixed up together and difficult to find. Anyone got a great system?

Can you not make more paperless? We have no bank statements or bills in paperwork, all online. Many receipts are now online too, my ones in the last week from food
Delivery, apple store and a clothes shop all emailed them to me

The only things we really have are actual insurance paper ( although its also emailed), certificates/ qualifications and passports

We have a small folder with sections like you buy from whsmith or similar

We scan everything onto a flash drive (we have several of these with backup copies) or download electronic copies (e.g. bank statements) and shred all the paper. The only things we keep are birth/death/marriage certificates, passports, and school/university graduation certificates.
I'm sure at some point I will need an original document, but it hasn't happened yet, and I'm sure I can request a copy if I need to.

We just have a couple of ring binders with dividers and plastic wallets. File everything every week or so an have a to do file for anything outstanding.

We have box files: One for Dh, one for me (and the kids' stuff is in mine as there's not enough to need a box of their own) and 2 for joint stuff.

The joint stuff is split into a 'current' box and a 'probably need to keep this a while' stuff. I use those plastic wallet things to organise it more - with sticky labels detailing what's in the wallet (e.g. We have a CAR wallet - contains current year's mot & insurance docs, etc.)

I have a mass of paperwork to deal with too. And I keep losing important documents too. Can you really get all the stuff into 2 ring binders?

I don't keep bank statements, except most recent 2/3). I really want a filing cabinet but don't have the room.

How often do you need to go back and find these documents? We have 2 lever arch folders for domestic papers - one for stuff that needs keeping forever-ish (passports, birth/death/marriage certificates, exam certs etc.) and one for stuff we will probably get rid of in the next two years. I don't separate stuff, just put it in the folder at the top. Every few years, the short term folder gets a bit full and I burn the bottom six months or so to make room. Very rarely I need to go looking for something and the time spent occasionally hunting through is much less than the time I woud have spent creating and maintaining an elaborate filing system.

I like the forever ish folder idea. Just thinking my passport, birth Certs, quals are all in different places.

Wow, I have loads of paper. I use a 2-drawer filing cabinet, one drawer for dividers with all the paperwork in and the other drawer for random completely different stuff because they're such nice big deep drawers.

I have a filing cabinet, and papers sit on top in a pile until I go through and file it all, like I did at the weekend. I like a good bit of filing from time to time, getting order.