I've spent many hours the last few weeks cleaning up a backlog of paper files, both personal and professional. It's amazing to me how much paper we consume, use, and receive - most of which we don't really need. We now have 5-6 file boxes of things I'll be taking to the shredders. I found a place in Seattle, American Data Guard, which is not expensive at all. They will also give me a "certificate of destruction." A paper certificate? I wonder if we use less paper now in general, or if in this day of super easy (and fairly inexpensive) printing we use more?