How to store paperwork, folders etc

[xsquared]

My study is next in my decluttering project and the bookcase is chock full of old college work, documents in folders, letters from the doctor, dentist, optician etc.

I would like them to be grouped together so that the shelf is'nt just rammed with folder after folder of paperwork and initially, I was thinking of getting a couple of box files for the medical letters. I don't look at my degree notes anymore but don't feel ready to throw them away either, how do you store yours? I was thinking of getting archive boxes.

@PigletJohn

put them in folders, in a cardboard archive box, and put in dry storage, labelled "stuff for my kids to throw away when I die."

Or in my case "stuff I throwing away because my mum has downsized to a retirement complex'. It's certainly focussing my mind on decluttering my own house so my kids don't have to.

@Rummikub

I don’t have a scanner nor a pc nor the time to scan plus I cba to scan. My ex scans all his documents immediately! I liked the op suggestion (on this thread or another?) that mentioned dealing with the post that arrived that day and developing a system for that. Then tackle the backlog once you know your system works.

You can get an app which uses your phone camera as a scanner

Thank you
I’ll look into that.

Daft question maybe but can you then organise the scanned documents into categories?

@PigletJohn

put them in folders, in a cardboard archive box, and put in dry storage, labelled "stuff for my kids to throw away when I die."

I loved this and have done exactly this today when decluttering. I wrote a little note to say what it is, (Uni notes) and there was no point going through it, just throw it away.