Bring back the stinky cheese.

Boing Boing: Guy gets credit card using torn up application:

I wasn't sure if just tearing a Credit Card application into tiny bits was good enough to prevent dumpster-diving theft, so I did a test.

It'd solve this guy's problem - “distinct aroma” is, well, correct but not quite descriptive enough. I picked up a taste for Liederkranz from my grandfather who called it “stinky cheese” and loved the stuff - and that was even before he lived in Van Wert himself. It's an “extinct cheese” now, no longer made.

But toss a little of that stuff in with your torn-up documents and you wouldn't need a shredder, I'm thinking.