when you have shredded your private papers the paper can be used as pet bedding, give it to anybody who keeps rabbits another use is to take a few strands and place them under the dining table, or behind the TV cupboard, or the settee, then you can check that your wife has vacumed the place properly, you can put a few peices behind the book shelves and know when she has dusted, these are just a couple of ideas, anybody got any better ones?????