Hustle, bustle and taxes  

My wife does the taxes every year. For some reason at that time of year is when SUDDENLY the whole mess of paperwork that has grown seemingly organically through the house, MUST be organized, all receipts found and put in order, all past due bills or things needing to be resolved stuck in one pile, files straightened and added to, and shredding for anything that could result in our identity being stolen yet again.

Does anyone else have a tax-time bustle or a similar `hey, we now have to do something we should have been upkeeping all along` or is there a better way to do this