How to dispose of old paper bills, paperwork without a shredder
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Anonymous
| This weekend I need to go through a bunch of old paperwork, old bills, bank statements...a few years ago my shredded broke and I never replaced it. What is the best way to dispose of this? Just rip it up and put it in the trash? Should I be worried about my personal info on it. I do live in an apartment. Any ideas? |
Anonymous
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With your hands?
I tear down my personal info. And down the account numbers. Then randomly shred up the rest. Throw it all in a bag and stir. |
Anonymous
| Take it to your local UPS store. Print a 15 percent off coupon. It’s weighed. Just took a huge grocery bag full of WFH and other personal documents. Done. |
Anonymous
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PP above: snip off personal info/recycle rest rest.
You could also hand shred, place it all in a plastic bag and then mix in coffee grounds, syrup, kitty litter to make bag contents unattractive for sorting thru |
Anonymous
Do they shred it in front of you? I ask because years ago I took papers to staples and they said their guy comes one a week to pick things up to shred and my paperwork would just be sitting there until the shred guy came I didn't end up leaving it there. |
Anonymous
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We tear out our personal info and DH shreds it at work. Recycle the rest.
There are also these stamp rollers that supposedly make your personal info unreadable— then you could just recycle everything. I haven’t tried one out, though. |
Anonymous
| My high school math teacher told us if we needed to hand shred items do so but then put the shreds in different trash cans and bags. Some in each bathroom trash can, some in the office trash, and some right before you take out the kitchen trash and then some in a new kitchen bag. It sounds like a lot of work but it’s not really. |
Anonymous
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I also wait and put it in the trash when I'm going to be throwing away coffee grounds, nasty leftovers that we forgot to throw out from the fridge, stuff like that.
Mixed in with all of my other garbage in our weekly trash someone would need to be really desperate to be searching for paperwork. |
Anonymous
| At my UPS store you put the papers in a locked bin that gets sent to the shredder. That's also what is done with sensitive information at my workplace so I feel pretty comfortable with that process. |
Anonymous
| I put in sink and let it soak till it starts falling apart. |
Anonymous
| NP but what do you all consider “personal info”? Name and address and account numbers? I need to do this too. |
Anonymous
I do it with anything addressed by name (so, most mail, minus the generic mailers that don’t use a name). It feels like overkill to me, but DH’s field of work has made him incredibly cautious about PII and security. Definitely for account numbers and statements with financial or medical info. |
Anonymous
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I have
taken it into the office and put it in the document destruction bins used it to start fires in the fireplace torn it into little pieces by hand, then dropped icky trash on it and thrown it out taken it to an office supply store to be shredded bought a new shredder taking it my county's Shred Day |
Anonymous
| Is a fireplace an option? |
Anonymous
| Get a shredder, bring it to your office that has a shredder. |