Fixing Things

Hello, We have a crosscut paper shredder. Leroy moaned, “It is not working. Jammed.” He did some more mumbling and fussing around. I finally asked if he wanted me to look at it. I did find two places that I could see paper. With a tweezers I could carefully pull out some of it. He had also tried that method. I suggested, “The vacuum repair place told me they work on many small appliances.” Leroy decided to look on line to see what he could learn. He downloaded the manual to find that he should try putting poster board through it. We actually had some poster board and it worked. Leroy has some shoe inserts that he wears all the time. They have gotten quite old and are splitting apart. He got some shoe glue, put off doing anything, but finally pulled it out and went to work on one of them. It was a success. How long it will last, he does not know but for now it is good. Amazing what is available when one looks. I guess we used to ask around before we had the internet. Is that gain or a loss? Paula