The other day I was shredding some papers from the early 90's. I was shocked to find a letter from my bank (I don't use that bank any more and the more I think about it I think it was a good idea to switch). In the letter, the bank had just sent me a debit card to use to withdraw funds from my checking account. On the letter was the bank account number, the number from the debit card, and my social security number. Needless to say I couldn't get that piece of paper into the shredder fast enough.

It would be nice to go back to a time of innocence when I would have looked at that paper and thought it was kind of the bank to have me double check the information instead of thinking about how if an identity thief were to get that paper they would have a lot of information that they could use to steal my money and my name. Now I am wondering how many other papers I have that have escaped the shredder.