I am almost paperless and don't regret it; you end up being online a lot more though. If you need a paper copy of anything, you can always print it so I don't see what issues it could bring up. I also do all my banking online, I transfer money, etc...

I'm drowning in paperwork too but different with doctors & pharmacy but we need the paperwork.

I don't trust going paperless because hubs bank just merged; he can't access his old records; so think about that. If you do go paperless; I would make sure it was a site where I could download it every month into excel; etc. I'd then need a spare hard drive or 2 to back it up just in case lol

Nope, although I can access some accounts online, I still pay bills by mail and keep paper statements.

Something tells me when we have a big breakdown one down (terror attack or who knows what with security issues) I will be glad, although everyone is online whether they like it or not.

As much as possible. So much easier. The records/statements are still available if you want/need them, you just don't have to store all of the paper. Perfect IMHO.

We're completely paperless here. Everything is scheduled for auto-pay, too. My hubster keeps track of everything, watches like a hawk online. Things still do get screwed up. Sometimes, it can get even more complicated. I almost have a sense it is more time consuming to go paperless, but I dunno. Luckily, it's his job, not mine.

Ditto what Work said. Easier, less paper, less time. And yes, records are there if you need them. I generally print out a year's worth of statments, etc. for tax prep, but it's condensed and less paper.

tina

Paperless here as well - we get no bills by USPS anymore. Like amysrq, all bills are paid on line. We use a flash drive and back up all computerized data weekly - takes about 2 minutes.

If I could figure out a way to proactively eliminate all junk mail, flyers, coupons that show up in the mailbox, I'd be thrilled.

At work, I've been involved in numerous IRS audits. Paperless is no problem, if you have the ability to retrieve online documentation - so that you can either email it to them or print it as needed. Any thing we need for personal IRS reasons - I just open the saved file and use it.

What does help is that we are a 2 monitor/screen household. That helps a ton!

Love being paperless (as much as possible). I not only handle ours, but my parents, sister and numerous work accounts. Anything and everything that can be a draft or autopay on charge card is done. I check everything - for example, our gas company was double charging for months. So I took off autopay for several months). They did credit but it was a PITA to keep up with.

I do still get bank statements but access a dozen accounts online daily. Business accounts are not available online, some kind of regulation.

DH and I rarely pay with actual cash, but put everything on a charge card. With work too. Both are paid in full each month and they're accessible online. Can print monthly or EOY statements when needed.

Hey, lesterd, when you find how to stop all the junk, flyers, etc let us know. I did one of those online junk/catalog websites that gets you off lists and it did help. It takes awhile to do, but worth it.

www.optoutprescreen.com will cancel unwanted cc applications and www.dmachoice.org is for junk mail

I think both have time limits (have to reapply in so many years).

I can tell you one thing that helps with unwanted mail - a po box. We got one years ago when building, because we sold a house, had to move to a rental while building, etc. and didn't want to keep changing address. We liked it so much we kept it. Of course, we're in a small town and the po is convenient for us.

Also, like Allison said, if you don't like actually paying bills online, you can always do bank drafts for most any bill.

tina

After having a very bad experience with Sprint and their auto pay policies, I'll never agree to allow any company access to our account. I pay everything online, but am not paperless. I still like getting that bill in the mail and have no plans on changing that. It used to be that we could obtain a year or even two years worth of information online from some companies especially the banks. Now with many it's down to 6 months or a year. With some banks anything older and you have to pay a fee or at the minimum wait several days for it. I'd much rather keep it in a box here and have access to it whenever I need it. I also feel it's not unreasonable to expect that one day something could happen that would risk having access as well.