In uk.d-i-y, Blair wrote:

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:54:39 -0000, "Blair"
wrote:

Any recommendations for purchase of a paper shredder and which to avoid
Blair


For something worthwhile in terms of security, a crosscut is
necessary.

The strip ones are worthless.
.andy

Thanks for your help.
I decided to buy a crosscut and bought one for £15 from Tesco. As I am only
a small user this model suits me fine. Operation is slick.
Thanks again to all who contributed.

One more piece of advice. Don't shred things immediately you think
you've finished with them, because sod's law says you'll want to refer
to one of them a little while later. I toss them into a plastic crate,
and when the crate is nearly full I shred the lower half.

--
Mike Barnes

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:07:04 +0000, Mike Barnes
wrote:

In uk.d-i-y, Blair wrote:

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:54:39 -0000, "Blair"
wrote:

Any recommendations for purchase of a paper shredder and which to avoid
Blair


For something worthwhile in terms of security, a crosscut is
necessary.

The strip ones are worthless.
.andy

Thanks for your help.
I decided to buy a crosscut and bought one for £15 from Tesco. As I am only
a small user this model suits me fine. Operation is slick.
Thanks again to all who contributed.

One more piece of advice. Don't shred things immediately you think
you've finished with them, because sod's law says you'll want to refer
to one of them a little while later. I toss them into a plastic crate,
and when the crate is nearly full I shred the lower half.

I know people who handle their work that way.

The argument is that if nobody has pinged them for something in 3
months (or suitable timescale), it wasn't important anyway. Therefore,
put a piece of paper as a date marker in the in tray and throw out the
bottom month each month.



--

..andy

Mike Barnes wrote:
In uk.d-i-y, Blair wrote:
"Andy Hall" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:54:39 -0000, "Blair"
wrote:

Any recommendations for purchase of a paper shredder and which to avoid
Blair

For something worthwhile in terms of security, a crosscut is
necessary.

The strip ones are worthless.
.andy
Thanks for your help.
I decided to buy a crosscut and bought one for £15 from Tesco. As I am only
a small user this model suits me fine. Operation is slick.
Thanks again to all who contributed.

One more piece of advice. Don't shred things immediately you think
you've finished with them, because sod's law says you'll want to refer
to one of them a little while later. I toss them into a plastic crate,
and when the crate is nearly full I shred the lower half.

Ah yes, and make sure that there is not an important piece of paper
sandwich in the rubbish, sighs, he speaks from sad experience!

Andy Hall wrote:
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:07:04 +0000, Mike Barnes
wrote:

In uk.d-i-y, Blair wrote:
"Andy Hall" wrote in message
news On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:54:39 -0000, "Blair"
wrote:

Any recommendations for purchase of a paper shredder and which to avoid
Blair

For something worthwhile in terms of security, a crosscut is
necessary.

The strip ones are worthless.
.andy
Thanks for your help.
I decided to buy a crosscut and bought one for £15 from Tesco. As I am only
a small user this model suits me fine. Operation is slick.
Thanks again to all who contributed.
One more piece of advice. Don't shred things immediately you think
you've finished with them, because sod's law says you'll want to refer
to one of them a little while later. I toss them into a plastic crate,
and when the crate is nearly full I shred the lower half.

I know people who handle their work that way.

The argument is that if nobody has pinged them for something in 3
months (or suitable timescale), it wasn't important anyway. Therefore,
put a piece of paper as a date marker in the in tray and throw out the
bottom month each month.

I work like that to an extent. I think a lot depends on the kind of
people you work with. I work with with the kind of people who will come
up with ideas that they claim are of the highest priority, then when
you've spent ages doing it they tell you its not really important any
more and they don't actually want it - totally oblivious to the effort
you've put in behind the scenes. I learnt long ago that with some
people its best to wait until they mention something four or five times
before taking them seriously - most of the time they mention it once and
you never hear of it again.

Of course, you need a selection of excuses to hand for the odd time that
someone asks how you're getting on with that thing they mentioned two
weeks ago that they think you've been working on solidly but really you
haven't touched.