Mega boring question but how do I dispose of personal paperwork?

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I’m on a mission to clear my house of crap during January and I’m now piling up a load of paperwork that can go out eg ancient bank statements, old credit agreements etc etc. It’d take forever to shred using my little home shredder and neighbours are never happy about fires outside so burning not really an option.

what do people do with this stuff? I can imagine it being a massive challenge when clearing houses after a death for example.

Any advice welcome, thank you.

I put mine in the wood burner

https://www.shredstation.co.uk/shredding-services/domestic-shredding-private-individuals/

I just put mine in the recycling bin!!
I know you say your neighbours aren’t keen on fires but tbh it’s January, they’re unlikely to be sitting out in their garden for hours, a small fire to burn a bit of paperwork won’t take long if you’ve too much to handle.

Chuck it in a large bucket of water and washing up liquid.

Let soak a couple of days. Stir occasionally. Lift and squeeze out surplus water.
Chuck out
Job done.

I use one of those little ink rollers to hide the personal info then recycling!

I shred mine. When my Mum died I spent the best part of 2 weeks gradually shredding decades of paperwork. She kept old gas and electricity bills from 30 years ago and stuff like that. The shredder would only shred a few sheets of paper at a time. I used to do 1 hour each afternoon and 1 hour each night my sister did a lot too.

I just run this over personal details and bin it https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confidential-Protection-Photosensitive-Applicator-Anti-Theft/dp/B0BSH3DD2Q/ref=ascdff_B0BSH3DD2Q/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=641686432792&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=82951021401756024&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9181020&hvtargid=pla-1978717821768&psc=1&mcid=8a0f3718daed3b5398e8c35ceab2e132

A local Shredding company. Took about 7 archive boxes when we moved house and just taken another bagful. £7 for a large bag there.

Another vote for chucking paper in a bucket or washing up bowl of water and leaving for a day. You can just squeeze it into a ball of mush and bin it afterwards. Super easy

I compost all our paperwork.

I wow, thank you so much for all these responses.

I’m going to buy one of those stamp
things and use that as well as well as my home shredder going forward (need to be disciplined about not letting g it build up!). For the enormous backlog i’ll
look into one of the companies and get rid of it all that way.

thanks again