If you are like many of my clients and have papers waiting to be shredded and gadgets waiting to be recycled piling up in your home, and you live in the St. Louis area, you’re in luck. You can take them to the Shaw Park in Clayton on Tuesday, September 17 from 10 am to noon. The event is sponsored by Commerce Bank in partnership with the City of Clayton, The Shred Truck and Nilo-Tech E-Cycling.
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If you have expired or unwanted medications cluttering up your bathroom or kitchen, this Saturday, September 29 from 10 am to 2 pm is the semi-annual National Take Back Initiative, organized by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Between those hours you can drop off medications at a law-enforcement for proper disposal. Just click on the link to find disposal sites near you. The event is taking place nationwide.
One of the things I did during that glorious week between Christmas and New Year’s was clean out my files. My recycling box is full but I also have a large pile on top of my shredder.
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Shredding is so important. I’m often shocked when I meet new clients to learn that they don’t own a shredder. They think tearing up sensitive documents is sufficient. Then I’ll share with them a little experiment done on one of the morning shows that a client told me about. They took a credit card offer and tore it up. Then they taped it back together, photocopied it, filled it out and got the credit card. To me, that’s proof enough that shredding is essential. Identity theft is too devastating to mess with.
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Inspired by this thread on Unclutterer, particularly the great comments, I lingered in the shredder section of Office Depot yesterday. I found one I liked (but don’t need) but it’s not available online, so I can’t show it to you.
But check out this nice-looking Black and Decker shredder-, which was recommended by a commenter in the Unclutterer entry (and called “sexy” by other commenters).
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