Hoping You Are More Organized
@JamesHxstatic (29360)
Eugene, Oregon
May 3, 2024 1:21pm CST
My credit union/bank is doing members the favor of a Shredfest. That's where members can take up to four good-szed boxes, provided by them, to their headquarters tomorrow starting at 9 AM. You can fill the boxes with old bank statements, tax returns, anything that might have your address info on it. They will shred a few tons of stuff tomorrow for free.
Just recycling or trashing that kind of document can expose you to the ever-present scammers standing by to steal your identity and find ways to swindle you.
We have spent too much of the morning going through piles of papers to separate what should be kept and what can be discarded. Maybe this year, we will separate papers like that ahead of time and save some hours.
How do you handle getting rid of things with your identity info in them? I guess some people burn that kind of thing, but we have more than enough air pollution as it is.
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@kaylachan (58906)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 May
We have a shreder, but before we invested in one we used our two hands. Not as good as a paper shreder, but better than putting it in the trash. Although not everything got tossed the way we would've liked. George is a huge pack rat. Our dining table and his desk are littered with all the mail we've collected since his hospitalization. Some of it has sipilled onto the floor, because neither of us can get down to the floor easily to get it.
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@kaylachan (58906)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 May
@JamesHxstatic I can shred credit cards and up to six pages in ours. I've only done one or two at a time, though.
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 May
@kaylachan Six pages at a time is great!
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 May
I have one too, but sort of forget to use it. It's a page at a time too, so once things get out of hand, you've got a lot of work.
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 May
It's weird how they accumulate so fast.
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@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 May
@JamesHxstatic Well, mine have accumulated over more years than I want to admit.
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 May
@TheHorse Oh yeah, same here. I took three banker size boxes by today (with hundereds of other people). It was so well organized I barely had to stop & they gave me new boxes.
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
4 May
We have an incinerator and we burn our stuff in there.
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
5 May
@JamesHxstatic The smoke that emanates is quite high and does not affect us
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 May
Well, that gets rid of it, but does not help the air at all.
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@LadyDuck (460346)
• Switzerland
4 May
The Municipality installed a large (very large) container where we throw paper, it shreds and compact as soon as we throw and it is available every day from 7 am to 7 pm. If there is something I am very picky about, I burn in the fireplace. Of course only very small quantity.
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 May
What a great thing for your city to do!
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@LadyDuck (460346)
• Switzerland
5 May
@JamesHxstatic - At least when we are ready to get rid of documents we do not have to wait.
It is mandatory here to "recycle paper", with this system people respect.
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 May
There may be free paper shredding in your area. It is estimated that one ton of office paper, once recycled, can save 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, and 3 cubic yards of landfill space.
I read that about 30% of trash generated by people in the US is paper. Once shredded it can be made into other products
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 May
@paigea Great, I need to see if they do that here.
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@paigea (35824)
• Canada
5 May
@JamesHxstatic We have access to free shredding through the auto club
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
6 May
I hate when they get jammed. I hope you find a good one.
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@RasmaSandra (74114)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 May
Usually I just tear up the papers and throw them out,
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@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 May
Seems as if we attract a lot of that stuff.
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@sallypup (58326)
• Centralia, Washington
5 May
@JamesHxstatic And there are always the idiots that burn garbage and plastic.
@JamesHxstatic (29360)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 May
Burning creates so much pollution.
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