shred everything in my shred pile

My mother has a shred pile the size of the UK!
I said I would shred it all for her, so I now own the shred pile!
I don’t mind shredding everything, that isn’t the issue!
Our shredder is, after around 3 mins it cuts out and jams. Meaning you have to leav it for half an hour and then spend half an hour unblocking it!
I will get it done!!!

I have years of statements that need to be shredded. Perhaps if this is on my 43T list, I might just goad myself into doing this.

it took three hours and six trash bags but i finally shredded everything shreddable in the house. there was stuff from 2002 in there. yeeeeesh!

I had this bag full of paper and CDs that kept increasing and I’ve been meaning to shred it for a while now. Finally started shredding it today after I bought some black markers (I like to black out the personal information too). Today was also the first time I shredded CDs. I thought that it was going to shred into pieces like the paper, but the shredder just put hundreds of dots all over the CDs. Shredding didn’t take as long as I expected, but I still need to remember to just shred what I want to immediately, so that it won’t pile up again. In the end, I have less clutter and some marker ink on my hands and feet (I was sitting criss-cross apple sauce)...

My boyfriend actually finished my shred pile for me, but I haven’t accumulated another pile since then. I’ve been shredding two or three items as I go along instead of throwing eveything in a box and thinking I’ll deal with it later.

Many cities have ‘community shreds’ where they sponsor a local reputable shredding company to park their mobile shredding truck in a parking lot. You bring a few banker-boxes full of papers and they shred them for free. Something to consider if your ‘to shred’ box of papers is more than your $50 shredder (or you) can handle.

Many of these places will also shred on their own site for some fee such as $25/100 lbs. At that price point they don’t generally do it ‘in front of you’, but if you do some research you can find one that is bonded and trustworthy.

http://www.creatrope.com/blog/2007/04/15/community-shred/

Finished my shredding at work this week (4-5 huge garbage sacks worth—I’m leaving my job in a couple of weeks), and got all my personal shredding done yesterday. I still have a few unfinished paperwork items to deal with, but now I can actually FIND them since I am not swimming around in paper!

Good feeling. Hopefully now I can stay on top of the paper and not let it accumulate this way again.

I’m shredding lots of old files at work (I’m leaving my job in a couple of weeks) and at home. really is an addictive thing. A little worried what I will do when I run out of things to shred….

It must be at least three years since I first started sorting through all my papers collected since childhood. Plenty of things went in the recycling … school and uni notes, leaflets, magazines. But there were also several feet of letters, emails, ideas, customer records, bank statements and various other bits and pieces I didn’t really want anyone else to see.

I have been shredding them slowly. The remainder have been moved around in crates between houses countless times. I didn’t want them all hanging over me when I move to Holland in june, so I’ve been stepping up the effort to get the shredding finished over the last few months. This morning’s concerted effort saw the last 8 inches destroyed!

Alas, poor Mr Shreddy died in action this morning after many years of faithful service. He will be remembered fondly. His replacement, The Bulldog, made light work of the rest of the stack and appears to be settling in well.

Now, if only I can keep shredding documents as soon as they are finished with, this will never happen again, ever.

On a very psychedelic Friday with a flu/fever addled mind, I made a journey to South Seattle where I shredded all my papers and continued on to the transfer station to rid my basement of gallons of hazardous waste. So this goal is done – and I have a certificate of destruction to prove it.