new toy

[gosling]

A word of advice:
Just because one has acquired a new paper shredder, it does not mean one should start shredding things semi-indiscriminately. (But it makes such a nifty whirring sound, and then you have confetti...)

And another word of advice:
No one with long hair should be allowed anywhere *near* a paper shredder until tying back said long hair. Especially on this little sleep. (No, through extraordinary good luck, I didn't *quite* manage to shred my hair.)

Comments

That Property

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

A shredder has That Property, which still needs a name, that once you have the object you want to use it on EVERYTHING. Other objects having this property are date stamps, labellers, cordless drills... you get the idea.

(OBTW, you have my Diesel travel mug now)

Re: That Property

[coraline]

i guess it's too long to be a proper name but i've always called it "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" syndrome.

Re: That Property

[ceo]

Thanks for the mug, but it wouldn't fit through the shredder. :-)

[gosling.livejournal.com]

I know. We found it behind the couch. :-)

And we have your tupperware container too. We shall carry them around in the car and try our very best to actually *remember* to give them to you when we next see you.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Don't shred the Tupperware either.

You know, we really need the Shredder Training Video of Wrongness.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

We do. Except that making it would probably result in shredding the entire house... and probably most of the yard too.

Re: That Property

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Several years ago I acquired my first laptop -- a then-rare top of the line color model -- and my first Estwing 18" framing hammer. I hefted the latter in my right hand and desperately resisted introducing it to the former.

The laptop is gone, long ago obsolete. The Estwing is still in my possession, still quite useful, still in the top of its class, and still an occasional threat to expensive electronics through-out my home.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yay shredders! It took amazing self-control not to shred everything in sight when I bought mine. We nearly shredded the manual, since that was the closest piece of paper. Voice of reason! Voice of reason!

[gosling.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Fortunately, Chip has cleverly hidden our manual. (Or did he shred it after I was asleep?)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

When I bought a shredder, it was becasue I was moving out of my apartment in Delaware adn wanted to shred several years' accretion of phone bills, bank receipts, and other sekrit papers. No way was I taking all that cruft with me to Massachusetts.

So I had plenty of appropriate material to have Shredding Fun with when I bought the thing. :-)