Another one bites the dust

I've been putting off dealing with a big pile of papers in our home office for about... six months.

Despite removing my name from mailing lists, going to paperless billing and the like I still get a lot of paper with identifiable information. So I shred.

I sorted through lots of paper to make piles for filing, paper for recycling and paper for shredding.

As I neared the end of organizing, I grabbed a few sheets of paper to shred in the magnificent five sheet shredder. It's not industrial-sized or anything but it works.

Or rather it worked.

After a few previous shredder mishaps I've opted to be careful and only shred one piece of paper at a time. That worked pretty well, until I got to a sheet folded onto itself so that the sheet was essentially a three-ply.

The shredder is built to shred up to five sheets at a time, so three should have been no problem.

It was a problem.

So now I have a big pile of stuff to shred and I'm staring at the big shredder. I'll just do one piece at a time and give it lots of breaks.

Deeps is accusing me of murdering more electronics. He might be right.

Labels: 2007, weird stuff