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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP:  what is your motivation for doing this?  I can see where it would make sense for someone highly mobile (e.g. a truck driver, a full-time RV couple, etc.), but I don't see much of a benefit to the average person.  I'm curious as to what OP is trying to achieve.

I normally use the "cardboard box" method for statements and other stuff that I generally look at once and only save for reference.  I toss them into a box.  Most likely, they never get read again.  The box ends up being a reverse-chronological-sorted version of everything, with anything that was important enough to need to be found, read, and re-filed put back near the top of the stack.  This method does not scale well and would never work for a business, but it works for my pay stubs, bank statements, and receipts from large purchases.  I don't normally save bills (electric, phone, etc.) once they are paid (unless there are tax implications), but I do have my bank statements with records of check payments.

I work in tech, but I prefer to keep my financial life on paper, mostly because I don't want to mix financial records in with my other electronic files and also because I don't want to forget to read or pay a bill due to a botched spam filter on my email account.[/quote]

OP here.  My motivation is to have less stuff. We literally have YEARS of paper, and I know we do not need most of it.  We did a partial purge a couple years ago, but there is still a lot of old paper, and it's a nonstop issue because it keeps coming.  My concern about being paperless is losing the electronic copies or needing the paper for some reason.  [/quote]

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