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Yeah, mine is a cheap ($20 like 8 years ago) straight cut and I want to shred even smaller but I need more power. I want to be able to put entire pieces of junk mail in the shredder. I am talking about those thick packets of spam from places like American Express.
If you want better privacy, cross cut is the way to go. There are cheap cross cut ones available but they probably have weak motors like mine that can only handle several sheets at once. And you have to manual feed it each pass.
If you want a heavy duty one that does auto shredding and can run for an hour or so, they get quite pricy. I did a quick search on Amazon, they seem to go for $200-$300. The brand Wolverine comes up a lot when I searched for "heavy duty paper shredder".
I do use a paper shredder. It's a pretty cheap one with a weak motor, so it can only handle about 4-5 pages at once. What I like about it is that it's a cross cut shredder and not a straight cut one. I've been using it for I think over 14 years. Bought it to replace my straight cut shredder, which I used for 7 or 8 years before getting the cross cut one. I usually wait until I have a whole bunch of documents before shredding them all at once, so my shredding sessions are very long but occur sparingly.