Continued story from a few days ago "Give Your Elderly Relative a Shredder This Christmas"
My mom called yesterday to ask me about what she should get the kids for Christmas. I read off their lists of games, toys, etc., and asked how she could have waited to do the shopping, since she's normally bragging about being ready for Christmas as early as September.
She said that she has been waiting and using cash for everything, so it's been tough to budget for Christmas and get shopping done as early as she'd like. She had called her credit card company in September because her card was declined at a gas station. They told her that it was frozen due to suspicious activity on the account. She was so disturbed that she closed the account entirely and hasn't used it since. Although the card company reopened her account and said that her information was secure, she said that she's too wary of the whole process to start using it again.
She even asked if I could help her buy a shredder! I frantically tried to come up with a reason for her not to get one so that I can give it to her for Christmas. I finally came up with, "Wait until after Christmas, you don't want to make a purchase like that in a store full of busy, stressed holiday shoppers." To my relief, she agreed.
As soon as I got off the phone with her, I got online and bought a Fellowes Powershred PS-77 for $160.
In my post a few days ago, I was trying to decide between the Powershred PS-70 and the Martin Yale 1000SC. Being similar in price, capacity, and quality, I had a hard time trying to decide between the two. I was finally swayed by the overwhelmingly positive reviews of the PS-77 on Amazon. It was less expensive and should be easy to operate and maybe easier to get support for the Powershred because of its popularity.
