When I find something really good I like to share it with others.
We have been working on getting our home office organized, and I can’t believe how much paper one can find that needs to be thrown out…but for security purposes we wanted to shred.
With a 3 day weekend and getting out of work early on Friday we took full advantage of the time to organize the office. We have a shredder that cuts the paper into strips that are about 2 inches long and quite thin. I thought this was a wonderful shredder, however, after nearly 3 days of shredding the poor little machine sounded a bit like a sick cat as it squeaked and hummed along. Originally the shredder would take 7 pages at a time and hum along for about 20 minutes, but near the end of the weekend 3 pages was the max, and I was lucky to get it to run for a full 5 minutes. Sadly we are going to have to soon retire the shredder.
Now…on to my find…
I was talking with someone at work on Friday and they said if they could take all of their paper to someone and pay them to shred it while you watched, they would. Well…yesterday I had shred about all I could take. I decided to search the internet and see what I could find as far as a shred service for individuals. I found one and today for lunch we took our last 2 boxes full of paper to see how the service worked. It was exactly what I had hoped it would be. We walked in and they directed us to the back room. We handed our boxes over and the man dumped our paper into the shredder. Then he turned it on and we watched this very large machine turn all the paper into very small pieces in about 5 minutes. It was so worth it and very cost effective in my opinion…because I estimate I would have been shredding for at least another full week.
If any of you are interested in the service their website is www.pdshred.com
