Alternatives to shredding documents

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bucket of water + Borax *less toxic than bleach.. will break everything down into pulp in a couple of days. *outdoor project*

This is not such a bad idea.
I've used the ol' water trick when I haven't had a shredder.
Put everything in water overnight.
By morning, probably most everything will be illegible.
To make sure, you pick up bunches of papers and twist them ... now, you can't read anything.
Let everything drain for a few hours, put in garbage bags, and let the sanitation crews cart it away.
Messy but effective.
 
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Actually I do have recipes for homemade marshmallows, homemade graham crackers and a really fabulous artisan choclatier... but that's kind of crazy... We are talking about smores.

You forgot to mention homemade marshmallows, too! :tongue:
 
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I can't be arsed. Rip it up as small as I can, then bin it. :p
 

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One goat? Two if in a real hurry.

So, um, why the hurry....destroying secret identities? Old passports? Sounds kinda sketchy...:eek:

What I did at the office (non-profit, so we have NO money) was run 2 cheap shredders. Run one til it overheated, then the other while the first one cooled. By the time the 2nd one overheated the 1st one had cooled enough to use. I had the 25 dollar shredders and sat them on the big garbage bins with the big black bags in them. I had a real system going.

Everyone hated shredding so it would pile up until I couldn't take it anymore and end up doing it. Just an idea.
 

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Lawnmower
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Do you have a fireplace?

Charcoal grill would work too
 
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One goat? Two if in a real hurry.

So, um, why the hurry....destroying secret identities? Old passports? Sounds kinda sketchy...:eek:

What I did at the office (non-profit, so we have NO money) was run 2 cheap shredders. Run one til it overheated, then the other while the first one cooled. By the time the 2nd one overheated the 1st one had cooled enough to use. I had the 25 dollar shredders and sat them on the big garbage bins with the big black bags in them. I had a real system going.

Everyone hated shredding so it would pile up until I couldn't take it anymore and end up doing it. Just an idea.


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Or what about a wood chipper? Can you contact a tree service and see if they'd let you use the chipper for a fee? That would be pretty quick
 

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Or how about paint? Could you buy a big trash bin and a couple buckets of paint?
 

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I'm wanted by the Russian Mafia. They're sending the people after me. So, I gots ta 86 what I knows, sweetie. Then, I'll be leavin' on a jet plane. Somewhere's like Albuquerque, Alabama, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Anywhere. I'll try to keep in touch, but may be a dicey thing for a few days/weeks.

Just remember our love, and remember the BullyClanLifers. We will be back! :wink::biggrin1::tongue:


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I live in an urban area, so a bonfire is out of the question

oh
i was doing OK, till i got to that part hah
laffing because i have lived rural most of my life and virtually every home i depart from, to start afresh, bonfires are the go ha
How else am i going to readily destroy VHS porn tapes, Porn mags etc ha, mind you i was so paranoid i ensured the ahses were totally disintegrated, as well ha
Hope you have found a solution, can always dump em in a vehicle and bonfire them elsewhere?

remember the ahses tho ..
 

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FWIW, I probably had close to 20 of those little 15 gallon Shredder Bags full of paper confetti when I finished up. I'm sure the recycling people were very happy with me Monday morning. My shredder sounds....sick, now. And yeah, I was oiling it frequently, so that there wouldn't be too much of an issue.
 

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FWIW, I probably had close to 20 of those little 15 gallon Shredder Bags full of paper confetti when I finished up. I'm sure the recycling people were very happy with me Monday morning. My shredder sounds....sick, now. And yeah, I was oiling it frequently, so that there wouldn't be too much of an issue.

Wow......that was a lot of fake passports and microfilm! But they'll never get you now, my darling! :beerchug2:
 
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Do something artistic with it....Throw it into your bath tub and turn it all into a big mash of paper machè, lay yourself on the ground and make a lifesize anninymouse, with an erection if you want. Then come fireworks night fourth of july you have your own Guy Fawks to put on top of the bonfire. :)

Ooops, all gone, too late. I have an aversion to shredding, cause I know as soon as I shred something it's gonna be something important....like a winning million dollar lotto coupon in a nondescript envelope.
 
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