Comment on I was there...
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
My mom saves up all her junk mail, and takes it to a neighborhood shredding event 2 or 3 times a year. She gets distressed if she misses it. She doesn’t understand why I just toss it all away.
I’ve asked her why she thinks her junk mail address is so valuable, and she’s afraid they will fall into the wrong hands. I’ve explained to her that if it’s on junk mail, it’s already out there being sold. It’s just her name and address, it’s a public record.
I get why she’d want to shred stuff with her SS# on it, but another AARP solicitation?
I’m in the habit of shredding everything.
a) It’s so fun to watch a stack of mailers turn into confetti
b) Deniability. If I only shred important documents, then all my shredded trash is now important. If I shred everything, nobody knows how much of it is important.
Mostly A though. I’m not yet worried about someone trying to reconstruct my shredded trash.
Very paranoid. I like it.
I just gathering it throughout the year and burn it in winter. Atleast i get some value from all the junk mail.
I had a close friend with a super long ranch home, with a big open basement under the entire thing. He collected old phone books from all of his friends and anywhere he could get them, and stacked up at the end, and we would target shoot pellet guns and .22s into them. They made a perfect backstop for light gauges like that.
He was also a jeweler, and had his jewelery bench down there, so I would hang out and keep him company while he worked, and I put in a LOT of shooting hours. Became a pretty good shot.
It doesn’t get much more American than a phone book hoarder’s indoor shooting range!
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Be a good child now and buy your mom a shredder
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
She’s got one, but she thinks the trucks will shred better, and the shreds wont be in our trash where people will know where they came from.
I should note that my mother lives in a gated, active adult community, and there is literally ZERO crime on her neighborhood. If someone started going through someone else’s trash, you’d have a half a dozen busybodies demanding to know what you’re up to.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
You have shredder trucks going through your neighbourhoods like mendicant tinkers??
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
3 big trucks, and three lanes of cars, pull up, pop the trunk, guy takes out the boxes and bags from the back and tosses them into bins, that are later emptied into the trucks, and you drive away.
And trust they really do pulp your papers without sifting through for the good stuff.