Shred Day!
Suggestions for Documents to be Destroyed
- ATM receipts
- Bank Statements
- Birth Certificate copies
- Cancelled and voided checks
- Credit and charge card bills, carbon copies, summaries and receipts
- Documents containing maiden name or mother’s maiden name
- Documents containing names, addresses, phone numbers or e-mail addresses
- Documents related to investments
- Documents containing passwords or PIN numbers
- Driver’s licenses or items with a driver’s license number
- Expired licenses and passports
- Identification cards (college ID’s, state ID’s, employee ID badges, military ID’s.)
- Legal documents
- Investment, stock and property transactions
- Items with a signature (leases, contracts and letters.)
- Medical and dental records
- Papers with social security numbers
- Pre-approved credit card applications
- Receipts with checking account numbers
- Report cards
- Resumes
- Tax forms
- Transcripts
- Travel itineraries
- Used airline or train tickets
- Utility bills (telephone, gas, electric, water, cable TV, Internet)
