Filing cabinets

[WhyBird2k]

I have inherited a large and medium filing cabinet from my workplace and was hoping this would help me get sorted with paperwork. I already file bills, bank statements, car paperwork etc in lever arch files but not very organised with keeping on top of it and end up with piles of letters that get sorted every 6 months instead! Please help me get started with using the filing cabinets! At present they are rammed full of dividers from the work place and I have put my daughters drawings in there to contain them! Will I end up using dividers instead of the lever arch files? Thank you!

I would advise getting suspension files.
that way, when you get a new letter / statement / report / bill / etc., you can easily drop it into the back of the appropriate file and its easily sorted, saving building up a pile of stuff and things getting lost.

back for good I love the name BTW!

OK so in my ignorance what I was calling dividers are actually suspension files, I had to google image! There are hundreds left in there, and that's a really good idea to use them for holding paperwork instead of piles round the house.