I love plastic sleeves. I save computer patterns on a thumb drive and on my computer.
Copies that are printed out are put in plastic sleeves in a notebook. For magazines, I cut the pattern out and it also goes into plastic sleeves, however if there is morethan one item that I like I make copies of the patterns. My print also scans documents, so it makes it easy.
I had to clean out my parents house over a year ago. Although my dad passed about 8 1/2 yrs before my mom, she was diagnosed with alheimer's 2 yrs before she passed. My parents saved everything. I was reading postcards I had written them from camp when I was 9 yrs old and postage was only 2 cents. My mother had the first letter that my dad wrote to her. I still have 3 huge storage bins of papers still to go through.
I only have so much room in my house - In my opinion I'd rather stuff it with fabric.