Do you know what important documents you should shred?
If you have old documents in a stocking pile in your office, it may be time to get rid of them. Of course, if they aren’t helpful anymore! And what’s the best method to destroy them? By shredding!
Before shredding, it’s important to take a look at each document to see if it’s classified or not. To safeguard your identity, your finances, and your family, it’s crucial to know what to destroy. And with the substantially growing number of identity thefts, you must know what documents you should shred!
Curious about them? Click on the next page to see the rest of the article. If you don’t have a shredding machine at home, once you’ve gone through them all, keep reading to learn about other equally effective techniques to get rid of your documents.
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One place you may get free shredding may be your library.
Commercial vendors, will charge you about $1 per pound.
I got a shredder at Walmart for $20+ (looks like $39 now). I got not the cheapest – mine does 8 sheets and credit cards. It does diamond or cross cut, which is better than strips. When I had a lot, I used a fire – breakup the ashes afterwards.
good info
Thanks for placement to go
Why would anyone destroy a birth certificate? You need that to get a passport, among other things.
I think they mean after the person’s death. Otherwise, I say keep it, but keep it safe.
Excellent information will put it to good use
Thinking about all the documents mentioned, as a genealogists, i can say many of these are available online to access/download and not all are for dead folks. Also, you can find many of them and old photos as well uploaded to family trees.
whats the point of shredding photos when they are all over social media?