Set up a bin for papers somewhere convenient in your house. Make time EVERY weekend to sort through the bin, pay bills, recycle unneeded documents, and scan things that you need to keep. Use Dropbox, Evernote, or another tool for an online filing system.

I think this is the best forum for this....family of 4, crazy amounts of paperwork from mail, doctor's appts, kids school. Anyone have a system that really works? I stay on top of bills (anything paid online or automatic is done that way), get rid of junk pretty easily, don't save A LOT, but I feel like every few months there is a pile of paperwork to go through, again. I am thinking I want to move towards a system of scanning what we want to keep, but even that comes with questions of how it gets organized/labeled/filed.

Does anyone have suggestions on a way that works efficiently for them, but you still have access to what you need?

Note - my solution for school stuff this year was to throw everything in a bag. Planning to take this weekend to go through, take pics of what we like, make a photo book for them, and toss the rest.