3. Birth and death announcements
Another bunch of documents you should shred are birth and death announcements. The exploitation of the identities of more than 2 million Americans who have passed away each year to file taxes, create credit card accounts, and apply for loans is on the rise, while child identity theft is also on the rise. Documents containing details regarding children or deceased individuals should be destroyed.
4. Unused resumes
From all the documents you should shred if you don’t use them anymore or they expired (your ID card, for example), a resume is something not many people think about. Well, surprisingly unused resumes can provide a lot of personal information about you—information that scammers can’t wait to put their hands on. All that employment history, addresses, and courses you’ve passed are more than enough to steal your identity or use your name for various credits you didn’t even think about! Be careful!
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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?