How do you like to keep a paperless file cabinet?

[joeeye]

How do you keep track of your important records and track of your very important papers and documents? And also track of not so important so you can have them to refer to over time?

I'd like to hear if you mastered a filing system?

I'm one to keep every paper record regarding anything I had to make a payment on, because there was a few claims over time that made me want to do this, such as keeping track of my paperwork, because I found myself having to refer to documents back 2.5 years ago I was lucky to have saved, because I was contacted that I never paid this bill, of course you can guess by now who these sort of people are, and that they can actually do this to me and get away with making me give them another payment, because they can do things like that and have it their way.

So if it wasn't for my great recording keeping with all of my papers I would not have been able to show them it was paid all ready. Of course I got a letter of apology, what sports.

Of course things like car titles, living wills and documents of that nature are stored in bank vaults and/or lock boxes with great magnitude of strength.

I wanted to get a little more modern and wonder what other are doing, like is anybody scanning documents then storing them on some great filing software?

[FrozenMercury]

It's probably easiest and more reliable to keep all your files in folders in a cabinet. Perhaps a mistake is made on your taxes and you need all your pay stubs for that year. Presto! You just pull them out of the cabinet. I don't bother to use such a fuss like a folder. I keep everything I need scattered about my room. Recent purchases from Futureshop and Bestbuy are under the centre speaker. Pay stubs are on top of my desk behind the speaker and under my spindles as well as in the cubbey holes of this desk. Oh and they're also in the closet on the racks, on top of the dresser, on the night stand and in the drarw of it as well as the cubby beneath it under some wires. Credit card and my T4 papers were stored under the spindle of dual layer dvds. I can find anything at any time.... that is if I dont clean my room and if given plenty of notice.

[joeeye]

It's probably easiest and more reliable to keep all your files in folders in a cabinet. Perhaps a mistake is made on your taxes and you need all your pay stubs for that year. Presto! You just pull them out of the cabinet. I don't bother to use such a fuss like a folder. I keep everything I need scattered about my room. Recent purchases from Futureshop and Bestbuy are under the centre speaker. Pay stubs are on top of my desk behind the speaker and under my spindles as well as in the cubbey holes of this desk. Oh and they're also in the closet on the racks, on top of the dresser, on the night stand and in the draw of it as well as the cubby beneath it under some wires. Credit card and my T4 papers were stored under the spindle of dual layer dvds. I can find anything at any time.... that is if I dont clean my room and if given plenty of notice.


This is what I was thinking that would make for a nice filing system for home use. Since I keep all paperwork there will be many ways to store and recored this stuff simply because of the nature of it, and how I obtain these receipts.

In addition to now getting a new 4 or 5 draw file cabinet this will take care of doing my paper files the correct way.

Also, I want to have any of my paper receipts filed away by scanning them and storing them in a great computer software filing system.

When I buy an item on line and I have the receipt ready to print, or my order ID number comes up to record or print that page, I want to be able to also file that page receipt in my computer filing system software, then if there came a time I needed this receipt the software will print it out just like I just bought it, this way I don't have to be home when looking for these papers, and I most likely will drift away from keeping a paper filing system by scanning because its a lot of work.

What else I found that works is I'll keep the receipt in the box the item came in, I'm a strong believer never throw out the box, 95% of the time I'll resell it, or I have to return it or ship it out for repair, etc.... I know my basement is cluttered with boxes, but what are basements for? Plus I'm good at putting a box inside another box inside a box. :)

So this is what I was thinking on doing, I'm sure I'll be fine tuning as I go along so to make it more easy to use, so if anyone knows more on this please advise, thanks... Joe