I don't have a lot of patterns, but those I have are either in books (neatly stored on the bookshelf, or lying around half-covered-up on various coffee tables, endtables and reading tables) or are printed on regular paper off the web. I have some of those printed ones in a large shoe box with a hinged lid labelled "patterns" which also has the garment patterns I will never ever use, and the rest in a wire mesh basket that sits on a shelf directly above my ironing board where I see it every day and think "My, I should really take out those patterns and look at them."
Hope that helps (*snort*).
Maybe you should lend me your husband to declutter my closets?!
Alison
PS Seriously, what about a three-ringed binder?