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I love opening envelopes for a couple of reasons:

1) It elminates the possibilty of the client throwing away something important;

2) If the client is sitting there while I open the envelopes, it creates some entertaining moments. As I pull out the boilerppate stuff, I immediately shove it into the shredder while I'm conversing with the client. It's just too much fun watching the expression on their face as they secretly wonder if maybe I just shredded something important while that machine is loudly grinding away.

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and the look on their faces when you open the envelope to find that

the one from the

 

mortgage company is     an offer to refinance                       NOT the 1098

bank is                             the privacy statement                     NOT the 1099

county   is                        the statement of the cars they own NOT the receipt for the personal property tax paid.  Hopefully they had opened the bill and already paid it back in October; t                                                                                      the  county does not send a statement at year end

AND the Vet bill is the Vet bill and no it is not deductible even if you had paid it last year when it was due....

 

... and the list of things they didn't bring gets longer and longer...

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I love opening envelopes for a couple of reasons:

1) It elminates the possibilty of the client throwing away something important;

2) If the client is sitting there while I open the envelopes, it creates some entertaining moments. As I pull out the boilerppate stuff, I immediately shove it into the shredder while I'm conversing with the client. It's just too much fun watching the expression on their face as they secretly wonder if maybe I just shredded something important while that machine is loudly grinding away.

That is EVIL!!   I think I will adopt that process immediately!!

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I have found a lot of dividend checks over the years. I only love to open the envelopes that have checks for me in them. I hate what the paper and envelopes do to my hands this time of year. I get such terrible hangnails and dry skin that no matter how much cream I put on them they still look terrible and the hangnails and paper cuts really hurt.

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I have found a lot of dividend checks over the years. I only love to open the envelopes that have checks for me in them. I hate what the paper and envelopes do to my hands this time of year. I get such terrible hangnails and dry skin that no matter how much cream I put on them they still look terrible and the hangnails and paper cuts really hurt.

 

Have you tried Zim's Crack Creme?  Or Gold Bond Triple Action Foot Cream?  The former has a cinnamon-y scent and the latter (which works great on super-chapped ultra dry hands) is more peppermint-y.

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Speaking of Body Lotion; one of my clients last year brought me a bottle of aromatherapy "Stress Relief" lotion.  It is Eucalyptus Spearmint.; which is supposed to clear the mind and the Spearmint Essential Oil is supposed to uplift.  Boy, do I need that today.  Have noticed that some of my clients are trying it out too.  So Funny sometimes, the things that they notice.

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That is EVIL!! I think I will adopt that process immediately!!

It's lots of fun. But you also need to have a ready answer for that rare client who will ask what happpens if you accidentally shred somehting important. The answer is:

"We can always get a duplicate. Most of the time it only takes 5-6 weeks."

Be sure that you're shredding something while you say this. It's even more effective if the shredder is so noisy you have to raise your voice to be heard over the whining and grinding sounds.

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