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When my 93-year-old mother-in-law died several months ago, my husband and I did three things with her personal property. First, we took what we wanted and then hired an estate liquidator for the rest. Finally, we bought a paper shredder for the boxes of stuff that took up most of her basement--old handwritten receipts, meticulous business ledgers, military correspondence, personal (but not too personal) letters and even my mother-in-law's report cards from Brown University (then Pembroke, class...
...estate liquidator quickly rendered the paper shredder almost unnecessary. "There's a strong market for ephemera," she told us. "I can sell whatever you don't want to keep." We went through the boxes carefully, taking out what was personal or meaningful. The material we otherwise would have tossed has since brought in more than $500 and is still selling. Not a record-breaking amount, to be sure, but enough to make a point: as we baby boomers tackle our parents' personal effects, including the paper trails of a generation taught to save everything, we could be throwing away cash...
...provides a toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox browser that keeps you safe in three ways. First, with Anonymous Surfing, it keeps websites from tracking your physical location by scrambling the address given to you by your Internet service provider. It also provides a spyware-removal tool and a Digital Shredder that makes it easy to ditch your history and other browser info so that nobody looking at your PC will know what sites you've visited...
Michaelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo discussed the shortcomings of the Hegelian dialectic over sun dried tomato and chicken wraps with Shredder...
Poilane has her daily bread Fed-Exed to her here so she doesn’t have to tolerate what she regards as poor American substitutes. Apart from the paper shredder on the floor of her Matthews double, Poilane is not letting business intrude on her freshman year. “The one or two hours you spend procrastinating I spend working,” she says. “It’s nothing demanding at all. It was always my dream to run the company...