As you get older and your family gets larger the amount of paperwork necessary to keep your life in order grows from a molehill into a mountain. Depending on how disorganized you are, your paperwork might be a literal mountain.
So what is the best way to keep your household records organized? Whatever way works for your and you can maintain.
Start by keeping vital records like marriage and birth certificates, passports, copies of social security cards, driver’s licenses, insurance policies, bank account information and household inventory in a fireproof, waterproof safe-box. These can be pricey but believe me when I say that not protecting these documents can be much more expensive.
Next you’ll want to get a small two drawer file cabinet or one of those racks that hold hanging files along with a bunch of file folders. Then you’ll want to label a folder for each category that applies to your household. Some label ideas are:
Financial (Payroll information, bank statements, investment statements, etc.)
Tax Time (Receipts, W2s, W9s, etc.)
Medical (School forms, prescription lists, allergies, etc.)
Insurance (policies, inventory of valuables, claims, permits, etc.)
School (report cards, permission slips, school medical forms, school handbooks and contact information, etc.)

Add any other labels that apply to your home. Use as many labelled folders as you need to keep things in order. A piece of advice, though, your should keep household files separate from business files.

From here on every time you set your hands on a piece of paper it should be immediately obvious where it belongs. It either goes into a to-do folder, a hanging file with the appropriate label or the trash as junk mail.
No more paper clutter.
No more paper chaos.