Fellowes Shredder Powershred 63Cb Review and Giveaway #SmartGiftsforGuys
December 13, 2012 by Sandy
Need a Gift For The Man In Your Life?
What about a POWERSHRED Fellowes Shredder? Even the name sounds tough! It’s not a delicate shredder, or pretty shredder… it’s a POWERSHRED! Right there, we know we’ve got our men hooked! The nice thing is, is that it also benefits us! We have less paper clutter around right, and we don’t have to worry about identity theft because it shreds it so small.
I’ll tell you now that this Fellowes Shredder is heavy! I picked up the box when it came to the porch and I was thinking.. wow, this sucker is good! I have a shredder now that is soon going to be replaced. It gets jammed really easy and then heats up after just a couple minutes and I can’t do anymore shredding.
Here it is! It’s such a nice size. You just put the upper power unit down onto the basket, remove some tape and plug it in… it’s ready to go.
One of the things that we accumulate way too much of is paper! Think about how much junk mail you get on a daily basis.
So much of that junk mail can be used to cause you a deal of great anguish if it falls into the wrong hands. Any mail with your personal information on it should be shredded. Also any old credit cards need to be shredded. I’m happy to see that this can also handle those.
Here is a size scale, you can see the actual size of it. You all know the size of hanging files right? So I put it next to my portable hanging file so you can see.
Now I’m going to test it. One of the things that we all get so much of are those pesky charge card offers. I don’t even like to open them, but my other shredder couldn’t handle putting them in whole. In fact, I had to open them and unfold the papers to feed it in. Here we go….
It worked! It did stop about 3/4 of the way through and I thought it was going to be jammed. The red light came on and after about 3 seconds it started going again and finished the job. I did several more the same way and the same thing happened. Of course when I opened one and took the envelope off, it went easier and didn’t stop. I didn’t have to unfold it to run easily.
Here are the results. They were little strips 1 1/2 – 2″ long. As a suggestion from me, I would have liked to have seen those strips diced even smaller, but this still did a better job than my other shredder.
I really like the fact that when you touch the area around the feed… it turns off automatically. When you have young kids, that is a really nice security blanket to have.
Features:
* Jam Blocker ™ There is an electronic sensor that measures the amount of paper and prevents over feeding
* 10 sheet cross-cut – Turns a piece of paper into 399 pieces so you can’t read anything.
* Shreds credit cards, paper clips and staples
* 5 gallon basket
* 8 minutes continuous run time without shutting off
* Safesense® Technology – automatically shuts off when hands touch the paper opening
* Energy Savings System is in use rather the shredder is in use or not.
I can hardly wait to give this to my husband this Christmas! (Now to pack it back up so I can wrap it!) It is larger than I thought it was going to be. It’s heavier than I expected it to be. Both of those things combined in a shredder, mean a higher quality shredder to me.
I am planning on giving this to my Dad. He LOVES office equipment and he only has a small one sheeter shredder. He will be SO excited! I will update this post with a picture once I give it to him.
Be sure to check out my “Smart Gifts For Men In Your Life” Pinterest Board and feel free to pin any of these pictures onto your pinterest boards!
You can Purchase one!
The Fellowes Powershred 63Cb can be found on Amazon ($125 right now as I post this) and at Office Depot (I couldn’t find this model on the site, but they might have it in the stores) and Office Max (179.99). The suggested retail price is $149.99
You can WIN one!
Win a Fellowes Powershred 63Cb shredder! The contest is going to run from Monday Dec 13rd – Friday Dec 21th at 12:01am.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
I will notify you via email and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. If I haven’t heard from you at that point, then I’ll pick another winner. You must be 18 years of age and have a US shipping address. (no P.O boxes)
Disclosure: I received product from Fellowes, Inc. and The Motherhood as part of my participation in this program. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are my own.
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The rafflecopter does not seem to be working!!! I would love to give this to HIMself!!! He loves to shred!!
Oh thanks for letting me know Rebecca! I was wondering why no one had entered yet. Hopefully I’ve taken care of it. I re-entered the rafflecopter again.
Love love Fellowes products and I desperately need a new shredder – my old one broke.
Because I don’t throw out any old papers because I don’t have a shredder. I really don’t need EVERY bank statement. Really would help me with some paper clutter
I like using paper shred for crafts so this would be great!
We are hoping to move in the next few months and going through papers and finding tons that I no longer need. A shredder would be perfect to get rid of them.
I would love a shredder because I ummm broke my last one when I shredded my old checkbooks. You don’t want to see the pile I have that needs shredding. It’s sad.
My husband is starting a new company and this would be perfect for him!
I have so many papers that I could run through this thing! :)
I absolutely need this! It would certainly give me the incentive I need to clean out my filing cabinets and be rid of my paper pack rat ways!
I had my identity stolen and hated how vulnerable it made me feel. With a shredder it would give me more confidence in knowing that my identity is safe from weirdos.
Certainly would be a great gift, thanks for the opportunity!
The shredder I have is a teeny tiny one and not really up to the workload I need to run through it. I need a manly shredder, ha!
I would love to win to give as a gift to my mother. She is always complaining about hers ;)
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Because we have a lot of old papers with sensitive information that needs to be handled discreetly
I would love a shredder because I don’t have one and my husband is crazy for one of this! Nice christmas gift!
I’m always paranoid about our garbage because we live out in the country. People are always stopping and putting garbage in our cans because they are close to the road (I’d rather that than them throwing it out the car window!). As the road is on the backside of our house, I never know if they are going through the garbage, or just throwing things away. With this, I wouldn’t have to worry…and I’d have plenty of packing paper for mailing things out!!
It’d be great to shred old documents.
I’d love a shredder to be able to shred all our personal info and paperwork to help better protect us from identity theft.
my office shredder tore up and I could use a new one
I would love to win this!
I would love this because my son destroyed my previous shredder so I have to save things until my husband can burn them.
I’d like it to take care of all the junk mail I get, especially the credit card offers and those pesky checks the bank sends.
If I won, I would shred my old unneeded income tax forms and pre-approved credit card applications. The motor on my current shredder is burned out.
I like that it is so heavy duty – my current shredder shreds only maybe 3 sheets of paper at a time but never a whole envelope
Thank you for hosting this giveaway
Louis
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I would like to win this for my son in law for Christmas. He has been needing one. Thank you!
we recycle our junk mail but not our sensitive papers, and we get a lot of them. this would be better than ripping
we have alot of old papers taking up space. we would be able to get rid of them with this shredder
My shredder is broken and I need a replacement to get rid of old papers properly.
love to have a safe way to destroy old cancelled checks and bank statements… like the powerful motor
Our current shredder can’t handle the amount of crap we have to shred.
I shred alot of stuff and need a good shredder.
I shred a lot of mail and I have messed up a shredder by putting to thick of paper in it. This one looks like a really nice one.
Because my shredder just broke. Thanks for the giveaway.
I have a lot of old bank statements that need to be shredded.
I think it is important to shred documents and the shredder I have is one i got used that can only handle one page at a time.
We do not have a shredder and Fellowes makes great products.
My grandparents need help cleaning out their house and they have so much stuff that needs to be shredded!!!!
I shred by hand so this would sure be handy.
Thanks for the chance.
mogrill12@gmail.com.
My ocs daughter with 2 precious toddlers and college would put this 2 great use!
My husband wants a shredder for Christmas because his old one broke.
I would love it to be able to shred credit card junk mail and other documents like them.
for the hubby and all his papers
vmkids3 at msn dot com
I’d love a Fellowes Powershred because I’d know my documents and other stuff could be safely discarded.
I don’t have a paper shredder and I’ve been wanting one. I trust the Fellowes brand.
I do not have a paper shredder and being that I am getting married next year this would make for a great addition in our home!
i need a better shredder
can’t be to safe nowadays, wanna shred anything with my name on it
have a lot of old papers to shred
Our shredder quit working and now we don’t have one.
I’d love one because I need to get in the habit of shredding my mail after finishing with it.
I’d love one because I’m always trying to tear my papers up into tiny pieces, and that gets quite tiring after awhile.
I would love to shred all my old personal info. I have 2 file cabinets full.