# Shredded Personal Paper Document Disposal: Best Practice **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shredded-personal-paper-document-disposal-best-practice/524746 "2010-01-13T02:47:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shredded-personal-paper-document-disposal-best-practice/524746/41 "2010-01-17T11:51:43Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I don’t home shred, and to be frank I think it’s a little bizarre, When the world is out to get you, paranoid is just good sense. 😃 Yes, that’s tongue in cheek, but the time it takes to shred documents is miniscule compared to the pain and suffering of identity theft. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shredded-personal-paper-document-disposal-best-practice/524746/42 "2010-01-17T16:53:46Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > When the world is out to get you, paranoid is just good sense. 😃 > > Yes, that’s tongue in cheek, but the time it takes to shred documents is miniscule compared to the pain and suffering of identity theft. Yeah, shredding. MAYBE. Not “anything with my address”, that’s retarded. (If they’re going through your trash, they know where you live! Plus, there’s this big yellow book they send out every year that probably has your address in it.) But shred stuff with your credit card number on it, okay. But then nuking the resulting crosscut shreddings from orbit is INSANE. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shredded-personal-paper-document-disposal-best-practice/524746.md?page=2)