Shredding Stuff

We've let our shredding responsibilities go. Since we shred every bill, every credit card application, and stuff like that, there's quite a bit of stuff that comes in that needs shredding.

Around last November our shredder stuck in the on position. So it doesn't stop when it gets done shredding. So the work around is to stack the stuff up and just keep shredding till we're done. You can turn it off but it just doesn't go off automatically like it's supposed to.

Then for a Christmas get together we cleaned up the place a bit. In the process the shredder was taken to the basement and it's been there ever since. I brought it up today ... and that means at least three months worth of stuff that needs shredded, plus whatever there was before Christmas.

Plus, when cleaning up for the Christmas get together I piled everything from one place into a tub, stuff that needed shredded and stuff that didn't. So today I got that tub and finally went through it, piling up the shred stuff and taking care of it.

But things are scattered hither, thither, and yon ... so if we ever get it shredded entirely we'll be lucky.

It doesn't seem that long ago that we didn't worry about such things. And it wasn't. In the process of going through stuff today I found an old checkbook, only from around 1999-2000. And there were our Social Security numbers as big as life right under our name! How different things are in just a few years.