I have filed or thrown out two more piles of paper from my study, and found 7 CDs in the process. Two of them were of our Irises (and so were stored in the appropriate spot), but the others are of work I did some years ago. Most of the papers I am throwing out are receipts of various sorts, and altogether, they may provide material for identity fraud.
I think that people like me who have a lot to throw out are all in the same situation. It would be good to recycle all the paper, but bad if it leads to identity fraud, and the more you are getting rid of, the more likely someone is to be able to perform identity fraud.
However, all is not lost. There are diskette shredders, CD shredders as well as paper shredders. And shredded paper is much better as a garden mulch than unshredded paper - particularly if you combine it with other forms of mulch.
So the answer for me is to shred!
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