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Title: Do you use a shredder?
Post by: sommap on February 02, 2011, 08:48:36 am
I have one under my computer desk.  I quite often open my mail as I am waiting for various things to happen on my computer.  Any junk mail goes into a recycling sack, but I first take off anything that has my name on it.  I even rip out the part of order blanks from catalogs if my name in on them.  I fill up a grocery sack every week with paper recycling.  I also fill up another one with newspapers.  My shredder is a cross cut one so it would be impossible to reconstruct anything. 
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Post by: mrisha on February 02, 2011, 09:10:00 am
I use my shredder everyday.  There are too many con artists out there just waiting to go thru your mail or garbage to gain info about you.  Anything with my name and address goes thru the shredder including expired credit cards.  I shred junk mail also to be on the safe side.
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Post by: dreamyxo on February 02, 2011, 11:36:16 am
Sometimes I do.  Lately I've just been tearing the mail in pieces.
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Post by: Brichmon on February 02, 2011, 11:37:48 am
i usally just rip em up , or sometimes rarely i throw them in the fire eventho thats not eco friendly but hey it helps your sleep at night because you know no one is gonna find it
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Post by: girlswin2 on February 02, 2011, 12:12:13 pm
Yes I also use a shredder and I burn.  These days you never know who is going through your trash.  I take time to rip off name, address, etc off everything and discard rest.  Gotta be smart these days.   :)
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Post by: Peds on February 02, 2011, 01:27:11 pm
I wish I had a shredder, Ill always use the blank backsides of mail for notes or drawing exercises, after that sometimes Ill use em as kindling for my fireplace, and one time I tore up the paper, put it in a blender, and used the pulp to make new paper.

That was fun for a little bit, I used an online tutorial for that. The paper came out very rough and sturdy, not too ideal for pencil but markers worked fine on it
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Post by: Elizabethar on February 02, 2011, 02:50:32 pm
Yes I do use a shredder just about everyday.
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Post by: hsit19 on February 02, 2011, 03:10:17 pm
No, I just bring my used paper to a recycling facility.
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Post by: katlyn2011 on February 02, 2011, 05:22:01 pm
My parents have one in their room and I use it when shredding documents with personal information in them.
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Post by: candyterrius on February 02, 2011, 05:45:21 pm
No. I do not use or own a shredder because they take up space. It may be helpful and useful to shred sensitive information such as credit card and bank statements. I have used the paper shredder to shred old unwanted documents at work, and once I shred too many, the shredder will jam up. I don’t think it is important to have one. I can just use scissors to cut them to tiny pieces and then throw them away. 
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Post by: MommyWifey08 on February 02, 2011, 05:54:16 pm
we use to, now we just throw anything we cant throw away into the woodstove
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Post by: ChelseaUT on February 02, 2011, 05:55:51 pm
We either shred or file things. We file bank statements, bills, etc. (we keep them for one year, then shred them) but we shred things like junk mail (credit card offers), anything with our social security number that we don't plan to or don't need to keep, etc. I really don't know what we'd do without our paper shredder.
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Post by: Nana923 on February 02, 2011, 09:06:05 pm
everyday..i hate mail
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Post by: makedoughonline on February 02, 2011, 09:40:32 pm
I use it to destroy my old bank statements and credit card statements
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Post by: kangagirl1321 on February 03, 2011, 06:10:10 pm
i use a shredded coz i dont want my idenity stolen by just throwing the credit card offers and other things away.
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Post by: sweetmermaid on February 03, 2011, 08:46:04 pm
Not very often. I just tear the statement up in small pieces and recycle them.