By now the importance of having a good paper shredder has been well documented.  If you are going to be throwing any sort of important documents into the trash to rid your house of clutter, you will want to properly destroy these items so that other people cannot use the information contained in this documents in a negative way.  The best way to destroy these old documents is to run them through a paper shredder.

In order to ensure that your documents are properly destroyed so that no one else can read them, you will want to use a top of the line paper shredder.  A good paper shredder can be purchased from your local office supply store for a reasonable price.  When making the trip to your local office supply store you will want to ask the sales clerk if he or she has a recommendation for a specific paper shredder.  These sales people may be able to shed some light about the effectiveness of a specific paper shredder compared to its competition.  The store may even have a couple of paper shredders on display so that you can test them out for yourself and purchase the one that does the best job shredding paper so you can throw out your old documents with confidence