the paperless home?

The New York Times article Pushing Paper Out the Door has been circulating around at work and it actually did inspire me to think about better paper handling at home.

First off, a clarification, there is no way my books are going away.

But I would like to get rid of the paper output of the consumer cycle: various bills, credit card receipts etc.

My plan is: scan->organise and backup digital object->shred paper.

The lifehacker Going Paperless at Home? answers are not quite aligned with what I need.

A lot of what the lifehacker people suggest is about going to electronic billing and payment.  Canada has had online banking for a long time, so that's not an issue for me, I did that over a decade ago.

Inputs

• junk paper mail - goes directly into recycling bin in mailroom anyway - can also reduce with http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/
• bills/statements I still get in paper - although I pay all my bills online, I still get some statements mailed in paper, simply because I trust "information I hold myself in my house" more than "information offsite that could be changed at any time" in case I have to challenge a billing item
• credit and debit card reciepts - Canada also went electronic point-of-sale payment a long time ago, but although I have no paper money, I have tons of paper receipts from every transaction.  It would be nice if instead of a paper receipt you could just plug in a memory key and have it "print to storage" - and yes, I reconcile my receipts with my statements each month, using an old version of Microsoft Money
• miscellaneous incoming paper mail

There are some recommendations for the SnapScan scanner, but it's showing at over U$400 on Amazon.
I got a shiny multifunction flatbed instead, it's Mac and PC compatible.

For me, the main issue is organisation.  Most people on lifehacker seem to be scanning to PDF, and letting their desktop search handle the rest.

I'd basically like Picasa for scans, except with an extra layer of organisation.
I want to be able to organise scans by:

• date scanned
• date on document
• types and categories of documents

That should be pretty easy, but I haven't found anything that quite does what I want yet.  Are there photo organisers that also handle PDF?  Or should I look for specific scan organising software?  Maybe I could use one of the tools that is for management of downloaded PDF articles, and use it generically for all PDFs, i.e. a reference manager for receipts?

Maybe something like Bookends?  Or one of the others from this Mac list of reference managers?
What about PC equivalents?

Or maybe I should run my own home digital library or institutional repository?  (I am only half-joking.)

We've put so much thought and technology into managing digital objects for libraries, surely there must be some of that I can reuse at home?

What are you using to manage scanned and born-digital paper at home?

(Born-digital paper?  What an age we live in.)