> For the house I have a house folder, for the car I have a car folder. I found that such an approach doesn't work for me. I currently own two cars but in the

> For the house I have a house folder, for the car I have a car folder. I found that such an approach doesn't work for me. I currently own two cars but in the past I have owned over ten cars in my life. I keep purchase and sale documents for each car in a separate folder until no longer needed. I keep maintenance records in their own separate folders. When I sell a car I no longer need, I pass the maintenance records on to the buyer, and I easily locate the title to sign over in the purchase/sale folder from last time. Having these together wouldn't make sense because purchase/sale is a one-time event whereas maintenance happens all the time. For example, to answer the question should I accept my mechanics' recommendation to replace some given part, I review the documents and show them that they already replaced it last year, so they better have a really good reason why it needs replaced again this year. Finally, there are other records related to cars such as insurance documents. These I just keep for one year only so having them separate in their own folder is a better idea to make it easy to prune out the old/no-longer-necessary documents.