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Old 09-29-2010, 01:43 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I have a wastebasket sized shredder, but recently cleaned out lots of old files that have social security numbers and personal financial information on them. Is there anyplace locally that will shred these? It would take forever with the wastebasket shredder.

 
Old 09-29-2010, 01:48 PM
 
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http://www.austinshred.com
 
Old 09-29-2010, 01:56 PM
yam
 
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The Office Depot near 360 and Bee Caves offers onsite shredding for $1 per pound.
 
Old 09-29-2010, 02:15 PM
 
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Austin-area FREE shred day provided by the BBB. Located on the Dell Campus in Round Rock on Oct 23. Also is happening in San Antonio for those who prefer more southerly movements.

BBB Shred Day - Austin BBB
 
Old 09-29-2010, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Back home in California
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Austin-area FREE shred day provided by the BBB. Located on the Dell Campus in Round Rock on Oct 23. Also is happening in San Antonio for those who prefer more southerly movements.

BBB Shred Day - Austin BBB
Great tip. Marking my calendar.
 
Old 09-30-2010, 10:04 AM
 
Location: Creedmoor, TX
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Shred-it
Document Destruction-Paper Shredding-Shred-it

Atex Shredding
A-Tex Shredding - Shredding Company Austin | Paper Shredding Austin | Document Shredding Austin

Am check to see if there are any other local places...

(BTW ... this is my 100th post! )
 
Old 09-30-2010, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Creedmoor, TX
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Shredding Services, Document Destruction, Onsite & Offsite Secure Shredding - Iron Mountain
Forgot about Iron Mountain ... have used them & Shred-it in the past, no problems with either.
 
Old 09-30-2010, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Creedmoor, TX
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Also is happening in San Antonio for those who prefer more southerly movements.
Had to go back & reread this a couple of times!! ROFLMAO!!! More southerly movements!!! This could go in SO many different directions!! hehehe!

One might say that line struck me as being VERY funny!
 
Old 09-30-2010, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Shred-it
Document Destruction-Paper Shredding-Shred-it

Atex Shredding
A-Tex Shredding - Shredding Company Austin | Paper Shredding Austin | Document Shredding Austin

Am check to see if there are any other local places...

(BTW ... this is my 100th post! )
Congratulations on your 100th post, there is not stopping you now.

It looks like A-Tex has a drop off location up on Burnet Road. The other two places appear to only do large volume shredding, as far as I can tell from the websites.

I'm hoping to find one closer to South Austin.

A google maps search turned up this one close by, I'm going to check it out, the phone # is just an answering service.

Pinnacle Shredding‎
9600 Escarpment Blvd # 745-50
Austin, TX 78749-1982
(512) 288-8400
http://www.pinnacleshredding.com/index-3.html (broken link)

Their website says its at the Postmark'd Shipping Center: 9600 Escarpmnent Blvd. Austin, TX 78749 Only $0.55 per pound ($2.00 Min)
 
Old 09-30-2010, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
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When I moved out of my house in Oregon, I had a lot of papers I wanted to get rid of, but not without destroying (all because I put stuff I don't want to just put in the recycling into a pile, with the intent to shred later, usually being too lazy to do it right away)

Then, as I was doing the shredding, my shredder broke.

I then went to take the clothes out of the dryer, and realized that some papers I had in my pocket, had become completely non-readable.
From this I got an idea.

As I experimented with the idea, I learned that it worked best with a stretchy type pillow case, and a reasonable volume of paper (so that there was lots of room for swishing). Too large a stack of paper and it didn't work well.
And I only throw it in with the darks. But I could put in whole envelopes, without removing contents (something I could not do with my shredder, although I would have thought I could based on the marketing information on the box).

One of my friends thought I should market the idea (one of those "As seen on TV" type ads, where one makes a simple task look way more difficult than it is, and then makes the task with their device look way easier than it really is).
My reply was "It is just a jersey knit pillow case with a rubber band around the top".
His response "don't tell them that, make it seem like it is a special fabric and a special construction".
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