I shred all financial and medical documents that have any sort of account information or personally identifying information on them.
I had a huge backlog of unshredded, file docs when I retired. I took the time to go through it and shred documents before I put them in the trash.
Now I am caught up and am more diligent about shredding along the way instead of letting it accumulate and build up.
Anyway... I had the same issue! It did not take as long as I thought it would. I did the shredding over about a month, a few hours here, a few hours there.... and worked my way through it.
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