Home Paper Shredders

In our increasing age of the lack of privacy more and more methods are being devised to protect your identity and documents. The great home paper shredders revolution happened in 1950's in order to protect documents from being accessed after they were disposed. To this day, the relatively same technology is being used to take care of our own personal documents.

When buying a home paper shredder there are some things to consider before you make your purchase, such as:

1.) The type of cut: The two major types of cut are the strip and the cross cut. Your conventional shredder will most likely be a strip cut. That means that your documents will be cut length-wise into long narrow strips of paper. This obvious has some disadvantages such as the ease in which one of these documents could be assembled if ever obtained.
The second type of cut is the crosscut. This creates a minced pattern of paper and much greatly randomizes the output of paper particles making it much harder to assemble the document after it's process. This is the more expensive but more effective solution to shredding.



2.) It's capacity: Not that big of an issue unless your planning on shredding thousands of papers a day in which you'd be better off getting an industrial shredder then a home paper shredder.

3.) Whether or not it is standalone: Some shredders are built to fit over top of standard garbage cans and others are completely standalone units. Naturally the standalone units will cost more, plus you don't have to fuss about finding a can, which fits the model of shredder you have.

4.) The price: You can get simple strip shredders for 20$ or you can go for massive crosscutters at over 200$. Really it's up to you and how you plan on using your home paper shredder.

5.) Extra Features: You can even find hand held devices but for a nice quality model, expect to pay around 100$ at least. Many home paper shredders now come with separate credit card slots, this will up the cost. Some handle paper clips and staples with ease as well, that might be something to look into.

Safety

Developments in the safety aspects of the shredders have also been under way. There has and always will be the risk of injury while using the machine but thankful manufactures have acknoledged these concerns by making the paper slots smaller and allowing on/off switches, even adding soft tops to block any penetration by small fingers into the shredding slots.