Helping your parents clean out their house can be a much bigger project than expected. Whether they are downsizing, moving to a smaller home, preparing for assisted living, or simply trying to get organized after many years, one thing is almost guaranteed: there will be a lot of paper.
Old tax returns, bank statements, medical records, insurance documents, investment statements, canceled checks, legal papers, old bills, and boxes of forgotten files can quickly pile up.
The big question becomes: What should you do with all those old documents?
Throwing them in the garbage or recycling bin isn’t a good idea. Many of those papers contain personal information that could put your parents at risk for identity theft or fraud. A professional shredding service can make disposing of those documents much easier and more secure.
Years of Paper Can Add Up Quickly
If your parents have lived in their home for 20, 30, 40 years or longer, don’t be surprised to find boxes and filing cabinets filled with paperwork.
Some documents may need to be saved, so take the time to separate important records from papers that are no longer necessary. If you’re unsure whether a particular financial, tax, legal, or medical document needs to be retained, check with the appropriate professional before destroying it.
Once you know what can go, FileShred can take care of the shredding.
And don’t worry about feeding hundreds or thousands of pages through a small home or office shredder. That’s exactly the type of project our professional mobile shredding trucks are designed to handle.
We Come to Your Parents’ Home
One of the biggest advantages of using FileShred is convenience.
We come directly to the house.
You don’t have to load heavy boxes of documents into your car and drive them somewhere. Our team can collect the documents from the home and bring them to our mobile shredding truck.
Have boxes in the basement? Files upstairs? Papers stored in the garage?
Just show us what needs to be shredded, and we’ll do the work.
This can be especially helpful when you’re already dealing with the many other tasks involved in cleaning out a parent’s home.
You Can Watch the Documents Being Shredded
Your parents’ personal information deserves to be handled securely.
FileShred provides on-site mobile document shredding. The documents are placed into a secure container and brought directly to our shredding truck, where they are destroyed before we leave the property.
You can even watch the shredding process on a viewing monitor located on the truck.
There’s no wondering where the documents went or when they will be destroyed. The shredding happens right at the home.
Don’t Waste Time Removing Staples and Paper Clips
When you’re cleaning out decades of files, the last thing you want to do is spend hours preparing documents for shredding.
With FileShred, there is very little preparation required.
You generally don’t have to remove staples, paper clips, folders, or many common fasteners. Our powerful commercial shredding equipment is designed to process large quantities of documents quickly.
Simply identify what you want destroyed and let our team handle the rest.
Shredding Can Make a Home Cleanout Much Easier
A home cleanout can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re trying to decide what to keep, donate, throw away, recycle, or shred.
One simple approach is to create separate areas for:
- Documents and belongings to keep
- Items to donate or sell
- Regular trash and recycling
- Confidential documents to shred
As you find old paperwork containing personal or confidential information, place it into boxes or bags designated for shredding. When you’re finished—or when the pile gets big enough—call FileShred.
We can securely destroy everything at one time.
What Types of Documents Should You Consider Shredding?
During a parent’s home cleanout, you may come across documents containing Social Security numbers, account numbers, financial information, medical information, signatures, dates of birth, passwords, or other sensitive information.
Old bank statements, credit card statements, expired insurance documents, outdated medical records, old utility bills, investment paperwork, employment records, and similar documents may all contain information you wouldn’t want getting into the wrong hands.
When in doubt, it’s often safer to shred a document rather than simply place it in the trash.
FileShred Makes Residential Shredding Easy
You don’t need to be a business to use professional shredding services.
FileShred offers residential document shredding throughout Connecticut and the Springfield, Massachusetts area. Whether you have a few boxes or decades of accumulated paperwork, we can provide a shredding solution that fits your project.
We offer convenient appointments Monday through Saturday, and in many cases, we can provide service as soon as the next day.
FileShred is also NAID AAA Certified, giving you additional confidence that your confidential documents are being handled and destroyed using professional security standards.
Once the shredding is complete, the shredded paper is recycled.
Cleaning Out Your Parents’ House? Let FileShred Handle the Paperwork
Helping your parents clean out their home is already a big job. Shredding the old documents doesn’t have to be.
FileShred comes to you, does the heavy lifting, and securely destroys the documents right at the property.
Whether you’re helping your parents downsize, preparing a home for sale, cleaning out an estate, or simply tackling decades of accumulated files, we’re ready to help.
Have boxes of old documents that need to go? Call FileShred at 860-261-9595.
We come to you. We do the work. You can watch us shred.
