3/30/2006

Budget Parenting: Money Saving Tip #1

Thinking about getting a shredding machine so identity thieves can't get your credit card numbers out of your garbage cans?

Well, don't waste your hard earned money. Instead, use the following system to save time and expense:

1) place all of your "shred-able" documents in a bin by your diaper changing table.
2) Use the documents as wipes, tucking them securely into the rolled up dirty diapers before throwing them away.
3) Now you've saved money on wipes, AND the shredding machine you didn't need to buy.

Any thief who STILL finds your credit card numbers, probably needs the money very badly. You should accept this as a legitimate charitable donation.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

For someone as busy as you are, you have way too much time on your hands!

Daniel Rudd said...

Well Jerry,
I've developed certain strategies to save both money AND time, allowing me to maintain my strenuous bloggin schedule.

But if you want to get the *time saving* tip, you'll have to just tune in tommorrow.

David Rudd said...

remember what your hands looked like at the end of the paper route?

now all your valuable information is on the bums of your boys...

Kate Rudd said...

This is a very good idea. Until now, I have been pureeing onions and slathering the paste onto all my important documents...very unpleasant. I'm going to switch over to this new trick right away. Potty training will have to wait. One can never be too vigilant.

Daniel Rudd said...

pastor john, brother david, other concerned readers, & child protective services:

Let me assure you that no bottoms were exposed to newsprint, or documental germs in the development of this money-saving strategy.

It's more of a theoretical technique:

:)

Anonymous said...

u may have a new way of accomplishing the great task of "potty training"
oh the poor little bums-hopefully no paper cuts...

Joe Kennedy said...

ooofah. that chafes.