A good shredder for home

DigSunPap

There a plenty of good options on this website: https://the-shredder-warehouse.com/

If not a bonfire will always do! It is the time of year for it as well.

Username03725

Another option is to tear out the info from the page that needs shredding and just shred that bit. Usually it’s just the top left with name & address detail or maybe the whole top quarter with account details etc across the top, but it can be anywhere obvs. It seems pointless to me to shred pages and pages of A4 when most sheets only need a small bit doing. It doesn’t take long to sit on the floor tearing corners etc out, and some full pages might need shredding, but most don’t. As a bonus our recycling people prefer not to receive shredded paper esp small cross cut pieces as it clogs up their processes. Handy if you keep gerbils though, I expect.

Shredding lots of small bits of paper doesn’t cause our shredder to struggle in the way that continually feeding in sheets of A4 does.

outtatune

aayush said:

6 yrs plus and and to check if need some of paper work as moving to smlaller place 

You don't need a shredder. You need bandages and elastoplast the way you're slowly bleeding out the information we need.

Coveredinbees!!!!

aayush said:

does it take staples and paper clips /

It will do staples but I wouldn't put a paper clip in it

Marvqn1

I recommend the ProAction 8 sheet Micro Cut Shredder. Its about £40 from Argos. Its a Which Best Buy. Apparently it doesn't require oiling either unlike most shredders do.

It can shred staples, but I don't think it can shred paper clips. Although I'm not sure if any domestic grade shredders can shred paper clips.

DullGreyGuy

So this is a one off exercise or you constantly need large volumes of shredding?

victor2

I just burn all my "sensitive" paperwork in the chimenea.

DigSunPap

Im planning on doing a bonfire of all my unwanted cardboard/paperwork on the 5th, anyone else?

debitcardmayhem

victor2 said:

I just burn all my "sensitive" paperwork in the chimenea.

Remember , remember the 5th of November gunpowder and sensitive data plot

cerebus

If you have an open fire - burn it , garden - burn it 

If like me you're luckily enough to have a secure cupboard at work  which gets emptied by a confidential shredding company- use that 

You should organise your paperwork into years and then the one that is 7 years old is the only one you need to get rid of, that way you will only have a few bits to get rid of

The more things you store online the less ~crap~ paperwork you have to deal with