How to dispose of old paper bills, paperwork without a shredder

[Anonymous]

Just buy a shredder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic stuff (name, address, account number) I rip by hand and mix with the cat's litter box business. Then put in a few different bags, with some old produce or meat juice or coffee grinds. Basically, wet stuff.

Are people really going through trash to find stuff like this? Especially if it's mixed with other garbage?

I often wonder this too.

Say it’s my CC bill. So they now have the last four digits. So what? And my name at my address. Public info. Plus what I bought. Ok…?

Or if it’s a medical bill. Ok? Again, last four digits of account, address, what was wrong with me. And??? Who cares.

What am I missing? Serious, no snark. Enlighten me!

I guess in theory if they got your SSN from one piece of paper, your DOB from another, and your bank account info from another...you'd be in trouble.

This rarely happens anymore. For criminals this is like a needle in 10,000 haystacks.

They are making money from the people who use passwords like cardinal1234.

Gotcha. That makes sense, though I don’t think I’ve ever received a piece of paper with my full social listed, or full account number, for that matter. Maybe my electric bill, but if someone wants that account number, more power to you!

[Anonymous]

If you are near Rockville, try here:

https://patriotshredding.com/residential/drop-off-shredding/

They do it right in front of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I let my kids light it on fire.

+1

Solo stove!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic stuff (name, address, account number) I rip by hand and mix with the cat's litter box business. Then put in a few different bags, with some old produce or meat juice or coffee grinds. Basically, wet stuff.

Are people really going through trash to find stuff like this? Especially if it's mixed with other garbage?

I often wonder this too.

Say it’s my CC bill. So they now have the last four digits. So what? And my name at my address. Public info. Plus what I bought. Ok…?

Or if it’s a medical bill. Ok? Again, last four digits of account, address, what was wrong with me. And??? Who cares.

What am I missing? Serious, no snark. Enlighten me!

I guess in theory if they got your SSN from one piece of paper, your DOB from another, and your bank account info from another...you'd be in trouble.

This rarely happens anymore. For criminals this is like a needle in 10,000 haystacks.

They are making money from the people who use passwords like cardinal1234.

Gotcha. That makes sense, though I don’t think I’ve ever received a piece of paper with my full social listed, or full account number, for that matter. Maybe my electric bill, but if someone wants that account number, more power to you!

I see what you did there.

[Anonymous]

We have a shredder (I mean they are like $30) that we use to shred personal stuff on a regular basis as they come in. But before we had a shredded we had a lot of personal papers we saved to shred that was too much for a household shredder. We waited for one of the local free shred events and took it there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic stuff (name, address, account number) I rip by hand and mix with the cat's litter box business. Then put in a few different bags, with some old produce or meat juice or coffee grinds. Basically, wet stuff.

Are people really going through trash to find stuff like this? Especially if it's mixed with other garbage?

I often wonder this too.

Say it’s my CC bill. So they now have the last four digits. So what? And my name at my address. Public info. Plus what I bought. Ok…?

Or if it’s a medical bill. Ok? Again, last four digits of account, address, what was wrong with me. And??? Who cares.

What am I missing? Serious, no snark. Enlighten me!

Same here and I feel like I'm pretty on top of stuff. There must be people way worse than us right?

[Anonymous]

I rip them in half and throw them into the trash.

No one is out in the middle of the night digging through my trash. I'm not a Hollywood Celeb or a Russian Spy, nor would my activities interest one, as my trash bags are full of rotting meat that I forgot to cook old bills, and lots of junk mail.

When the garbage men pick it up, it's taken to the transfer station where it is dumped into a giant container, which then gets trucked to the I-95 landfill, where giant backhoes/bulldozers push it into a pit, this happens happens about 2,000 times a day, trash from millions of homes gets dumped alongside my bills and rotting meat, buried underneath 1 ton of rotting stinking garbage.

The real money to be made these days is from online scammers, like the 30-year-old online "catfish hottie" who convinces Grandpa Joe that he's the love of her life and please send money.

Really no one is fishing through your suburban garbage unless you are a pop star or a Russian spy.

[Anonymous]

But this is America. Don't you want to support business?

I mean, if a commercial made by a paper shredder producer tells you that your identity is going to be stolen if you don't buy their product, believe them, because they care about protecting you identity.

Hurry, get to Best Buy or Amazon, and buy the top-of-the-line model. I highly recommend the $1,500 semi-industrial K1874 Model by Cannon.

That puppy will blast your electric bill into 2000 tiny microscopic pieces, so tiny that not even the FBI would stand a chance of putting that Va Dominion bill back together.

[Anonymous]

I throw all that stuff in a big box and when the box is full I take it to a place that shreds it in front of me.

[Anonymous]

Agree w trashing the paper over time. Putting liquids on top will help destroy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is a fireplace an option?

Burning whole sheets of paper is terrible way of destroying data.

You basically need to shred it first if you want it to burn completely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I rip them in half and throw them into the trash.

No one is out in the middle of the night digging through my trash. I'm not a Hollywood Celeb or a Russian Spy, nor would my activities interest one, as my trash bags are full of rotting meat that I forgot to cook old bills, and lots of junk mail.

When the garbage men pick it up, it's taken to the transfer station where it is dumped into a giant container, which then gets trucked to the I-95 landfill, where giant backhoes/bulldozers push it into a pit, this happens happens about 2,000 times a day, trash from millions of homes gets dumped alongside my bills and rotting meat, buried underneath 1 ton of rotting stinking garbage.

The real money to be made these days is from online scammers, like the 30-year-old online "catfish hottie" who convinces Grandpa Joe that he's the love of her life and please send money.

Really no one is fishing through your suburban garbage unless you are a pop star or a Russian spy.

Why did you waste your time typing this all up this post and the next one 19:27? They're not even remotely funny and totally useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is a fireplace an option?

There are not too many apartments around here with fireplaces.

[Anonymous]

Strosniders Hardware, $.80/pound