8 Things You Should Shred Right Now

According to financial services consulting firm Javelin Strategies and Research, identity theft affects 11 million people a year, at a cost of $54 billion.

If you don't want to become a statistic, a good place to start is to get a shredder.

Shredding documents isn't just for accounting firms and people with something to hide -- every day working Americans have houses full of documents containing potentially compromising information, from Social Security numbers to bank account information.