If you take my old bills, bank statements and documents, the mags that are kept for only one or two articles, the estate documents and various other papers of my moms, the instructions manuals for appliance that you have to keep, but never need to refer to (until ou throw it away), I have a paper mountain.

I resolve to:
scan the instruction manuals – no space needed and dump the manual itself.
scan magazine articles that I want and dump the magazines.
sort through and keep in orderly files onlh the documents that have to be kept.