I tend to let my stuff accumulate into piles on the table beside my easy chair. Everything is within easy reach, but I sometime knock bits and pieces onto the floor.
There is a little "landfill" beside my easy chair. I usually have 10 to 15 books that I reference almost every day and they are all laying around my easy chair, along with mail that needs to be answered. My wife does not understand my "filing" system. I just let her know that I organize my material the same way things are organized in my brain... little piles of knowledge and info seemingly jumbled, but ready to be pulled to the front and mixed in with other bits of info that may or may not fit.