seasparrow
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 30 May 2007
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Posts: 64
Location: Bristol, UK
02 Jun 2007, 12:44 pm
My mum bought 1 a few weeks back for shredding bank statements and stuff like that.
Well, I just got it out the box to shred some of my stuff and WOW it is sooooooooo amazing! You plug it in, put the paper in the feeder and it just shreds the paper into small pieces. Its very loud though but I can handle the noise just for the sheer pleasure of seeing it shred.
I am now on a mission to find everything (and anything) that can be shredded.
I will phone my friend and make him find stuff that I can shred and take it with me when I go see him tomorrow. I will call my dad, my brother, my friends in London and wherever there is paper to be shredded... I will be there 
Call it AS or just 'boys with toys' this has become my new obsession and I love it!
02 Jun 2007, 12:50 pm
my son worked in a stationers and sold paper shredders. One customer asked about a particular machine 'does this one shred coloured paper a well or just black and white?' 
seasparrow
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 30 May 2007
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Posts: 64
Location: Bristol, UK
02 Jun 2007, 12:52 pm
02 Jun 2007, 12:52 pm
Well it is good to "ASCERTAIN THINGS".
richardbenson
Xfractor Card #351
Joined: 30 Oct 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 13,553
Location: Leave only a footprint behind
02 Jun 2007, 1:15 pm
02 Jun 2007, 1:22 pm
Well, I just got it out the box to shred some of my stuff and WOW it is sooooooooo amazing! You plug it in, put the paper in the feeder and it just shreds the paper into small pieces. Its very loud though but I can handle the noise just for the sheer pleasure of seeing it shred.
I am now on a mission to find everything (and anything) that can be shredded.
I will phone my friend and make him find stuff that I can shred and take it with me when I go see him tomorrow. I will call my dad, my brother, my friends in London and wherever there is paper to be shredded... I will be there
Call it AS or just 'boys with toys' this has become my new obsession and I love it!
I like paper shredders - in one of the jobs I had while I was a student, I got to spend entire days shredding old balance sheets!
lol
02 Jun 2007, 1:34 pm
02 Jun 2007, 1:35 pm
WOW, I wonder what she thought it was! Stll, shredders often can't shred much, and ****REAL**** shredders accept even fewer sheets. MOST just slice the paper into thin strips. Don't get carried away. I burned TWO out so far! I get a LOT of junk mail, and shred a LOT of it. about 95% of my trash at home is SHREDDED PAPER!
Steve
02 Jun 2007, 1:40 pm
seasparrow
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 30 May 2007
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Posts: 64
Location: Bristol, UK
02 Jun 2007, 2:07 pm
I read the instructions (after I used it) and I can only use it for 2 minutes every 15 minutes. This will be hard to do!! !
5 sheets at a time... but I do 1 at a time
02 Jun 2007, 2:17 pm
seasparrow
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 30 May 2007
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Posts: 64
Location: Bristol, UK
02 Jun 2007, 2:50 pm
Tell me about it lol
When I was younger on holiday there was an electric fire and it was all made of metal. I was so fascinated by it and I wanted to know how it worked. I had a good look at it then decided that I wanted to know what it would feel like warming up.
So I put a finger on the electric bar and switched it on (the switch was also metal) and guess what.... I got a huge electric shock.
well...DUH!! !!
Hindsight is great aint it
02 Jun 2007, 3:09 pm
02 Jun 2007, 3:26 pm
You should see those shredders made for embassies and the like: They're driven by a combustion engine, and will happily chew up a whole ring binder with metal parts, cardboard, several hundred pages and all -- and probablu go >Belch!< afterwards... 
02 Jun 2007, 3:38 pm
02 Jun 2007, 3:46 pm
When i was little, my dad always shredded junk mail and other old and used paper sheets he didn`t need. So i sat and shredded 5 foot tall piles of paper for hours and hours. So much fun.
Oh the good old times
