The paper stack is really less impressive than it sounds. :-)
I'm self-employed and didn't throw away anything related to my work for 20+ years. (Oops!) I'm now slowly working my way through getting rid of stuff over a certain age. This year, that involves two boxes of papers relating to client projects that I worked on between, I think, 2002 and 2010. (Because, really, no one is ever going to ask me to check a detail in my original notes for a marketing brochure I wrote 10 years ago....)
Since there may be slightly sensitive information in there -- like contact details that could still be valid -- on maybe every 3rd page, it's far simpler and less time-consuming just to shred everything than look at every page and decide whether it needs to be shredded or not. Hence several inches of shredding each week for the past two or three weeks!
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Date: 2017-07-03 09:32 pm (UTC)I'm self-employed and didn't throw away anything related to my work for 20+ years. (Oops!) I'm now slowly working my way through getting rid of stuff over a certain age. This year, that involves two boxes of papers relating to client projects that I worked on between, I think, 2002 and 2010. (Because, really, no one is ever going to ask me to check a detail in my original notes for a marketing brochure I wrote 10 years ago....)
Since there may be slightly sensitive information in there -- like contact details that could still be valid -- on maybe every 3rd page, it's far simpler and less time-consuming just to shred everything than look at every page and decide whether it needs to be shredded or not. Hence several inches of shredding each week for the past two or three weeks!