I (heart) my shredder, but I think I'm going to go buy a crosscut shredder soon.
I almost always tear them in half and throw them away.
Sometimes, if I am feeling particularly paranoid, I'll tear them into little bitty pieces.
Is that good enough? Could a determined and dexterous criminal gather all the bits, tape them together and apply for a card in my name? Would a credit card company balk when confronted with an obviously resurrected application?
A test was in order, and when the latest application arrived from Chase Mastercard, I was equal to the task.
They processed a torn up credit card application? That is seriously messed up. I appreciate my shredder more each day.
I know! I’d love to hear what Chase has to say about this.
And you just know that someone had to hand enter it. I doubt the taped up application could be successfully OCR’d.
This is a major benefit to Don working at a paper mill – we bag all of that stuff, he takes them to work and dumps them into the pulper – in less than 2 minutes they are reduced to their composite cellulose fibers, thanks to the wonders of chemistry. We’re recycling and being secure – nice warm fuzzy feeling there. My father-in-law uses such junk mail for kindling in his wood stove.
Yeah, that’s the best way to do it, if you can manage it. ;)
Don’t imagine wood stoves and fireplaces are too thick on the ground down there in No-Snow country :-)
Nah, I meant the paper mill. ;) We’ve got a fireplace, but haven’t used it once since we moved here, over 5 years ago. o_O
Need to get the chimmney swept and checked out, plus it’s really meant for gas logs, not a real fire.
Hand making paper is good, too. It doesn’t take too much to turn all that stuff into slurry, and you get some nice paper out of it to boot. ;)
DANG!
Just….DANG!