LIDL - 21 Litre Paper & CD Shredder for £25.99

londonsurrey

£25.99. How do I edit the title to include the price?
Up to 7 sheets of paper max. simultaneously.

I've just got one, and am loving the large bin capacity. My old one would fill up far too quickly!

moneysavingkitten

Sounds very useful, especially with the CD shredder. Mine fills up far too fast too. Is a normal shredder that makes long strips or a cross cut shredder?

londonsurrey

It's a cross shredder, AND they're really small strips about 1.5 to 2cm long. I think my old cross shredder cut them about 4-5cm long.

This new stuff's lovely, I think it would make great gerbil bedding. I'm using it at the bottom of my cat litter tray!

whitewing

I always break shredders, even the ones that can shred credit cards. I am tempted though.

londonsurrey

I've found it on a German page. It's got a little window in the basket and the big thing for me is that it's got a handle to make it easy to lift off the heavy shredder motor bit at the top!

http://www.lidl.de/de/Aktenvernichter/Olympia-Aktenvernichter-ECS-71-CCD

cjj_2

I have this and it's very good x

moneysavingkitten

londonsurrey wrote: »

It's a cross shredder, AND they're really small strips about 1.5 to 2cm long. I think my old cross shredder cut them about 4-5cm long.

This new stuff's lovely, I think it would make great gerbil bedding. I'm using it at the bottom of my cat litter tray!

What a brilliant use for shredding Thanks that sounds really good, I will have to have a look for one, great find

londonsurrey

moneysavingkitten wrote: »

What a brilliant use for shredding Thanks that sounds really good, I will have to have a look for one, great find

Thank you.

Not only is it very MSE in a saving money sense, it also increases security - just let 'em try to piece the bits together after salvaging them from the bottom of the litter tray!

walwin

londonsurrey wrote: »

£25.99. How do I edit the title to include the price?

Click on EDIT, then GO ADVANCED

londonsurrey

walwin wrote: »

Click on EDIT, then GO ADVANCED

Thank you for that. I'd always ignored that button before!

WaterTiger

Was pretty good while it lasted (though I make a better job of, and less fuss about, doing CDs and credit cards using scissors), but it broke down yesterday - the motor seems to have died, and neither thorough cleaning nor pitiful cajoling has had any effect.

Bought 24 June 2013 at £26.99. I've still got the box, and possibly the receipt, but as Lidl aren't doing shredders at the minute, that still won't get me a replacement, though it may win me a refund. (It may not though; unfortunately the shredded-paper window is on the longer side, which, given the space available, had to face a bookcase, so I did rather overfill the thing. This viewing window problem seems to be widespread with shredders: why not put in two windows, one on a long side and one on an end, to give the best chance of keeping an eye on the contents?)

I've looked at quite a lot of customer reviews for cross-cut shredders now, and compared a lot of users' experiences of several models; and I've found that generally the shredders seem to have a much lower paper intake capacity than they state (e.g., if it says 10 or 11 sheets, users are reporting a problem at 7 or 8 sheets, and advising inserting 6 maximum; if the stated capacity is 6, that probably means 3…), and a much lower working capacity (i.e. they overheat/cut out much sooner than the specifications would have you believe: 3 minutes' shredding isn't actually very long - and that's what the sales blurb is offering, not users' experience of actual shredding time pre-cutout).

One problem here, then, seems to be trying to work out which - if any - of the manufacturers is giving a realistic performance guide and which are simply quoting the best-achieved-on-a-single-miraculous-occasion…

I've still got my previous shredder, which is still going strong after six, maybe seven, years; but it cuts in strips which just doesn't seem to give the same reassurance nowadays…