I read this and thought ‘what an excellent idea’.

And then I thought ‘I have a scanner that I barely use, and I always have a heap of bills that I’d like to throw out, but I always end up needing to check back on at some random time in the future cluttering up the house.

So now I have Scansoft PaperPort - document comes through the door, it gets scanned and thrown away. It converts it to PDF format, and also can do OCR if you need to text-search in the future. It also has a PDF print driver so I can do the webpage thing on my PC. Isn’t it odd how everyone talks about how a paperless office would be nice, but never apply the same reasoning to the home.

I must confess, once I thought about it, I’ve started wandering through the house looking for bits of paper I can throw away! :-)