# Digitising my home filing system

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 14, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digitising-my-home-filing-system/1032334 "2026-08-14T11:15:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digitising-my-home-filing-system/1032334/21 "2026-08-16T21:51:12Z")

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I don’t have nearly as much as I did when we owned our home. I kept track of all the maintenance and construction, both hired and home, etc., and a folder for all the appliance manuals and left a useful pile for the guy who bought the place. Our real estate agent was very impressed. I understand about limiting the amount of paper, believe me. It’s the one thing about my wife that has always alarmed me: the piles of paper everywhere and her propensity to download and print everything because she doesn’t understand bookmarks. But while she’s very smart, computer files can be a problem for her, so if I die, she’ll know where things are: in the filing cabinet.

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