How do I get rid of old checkbooks with my social security number on them? Seems too time consuming to try to shred each one.
–Scared of ID theft in Bryant
Momma says:
How old are these check books with your number on them? We haven’t done that in forever. You probably need to get rid of a bunch of stuff. But back to the check books. How many do you have?
If they will all fit in a net bag for washing a lady’s unmentionables, you could put them in the washing machine with enough detergent and bleach to ruin them. Hopefully the small pieces of paper would not exit the bag and clog your drain.
If you live in the county ( provided there is no burn ban) you could make a bon fire and torch them. Lotsa folks in the country burn their trash in burn barrels. Do you have a metal trash can or waste basket?
Gotta puppy? Give them to it for a toy. Boy do they like to chew.
You could go to the “Nervous Hospital” at Haskell tonight and ask them to place some in the canons that are gonna shoot the fireworks.
But whatever you do, don’t just ink them out and toss.
Which reminds me of the time when I worked for a city of LR department back in the 70’s. I was young and stupid and way back then in those dark ages ink encrypted account numbers could have even been a new thing. I can’t remember. Anyway this agency had two or three different accounts. I ran out of deposit slips to one of the checking accounts. So I crossed out the savings number at the bottom and wrote in the checking acct number. I was surprised to find out that the machine could still see those OCR numbers through the permanent marker!! I used to be very naive. The bank was home town enough in those days to call and let me know the precarious financial position that I had been creating for the agency. It was an old bank that has been absorbed by bigger fish in the banking industry, but to no fault of my own.