Top 24 Ways To Destroy Your Credit Cards

I recently came across a post, I think I actually seen it before but, that listed 27 Fun Ways to Destroy Your Old Credit Card. Well, after recently destroying my 1 credit card and 3 others of a friend, I found the post to be incomplete. As I found more you tube videos, I will add them to the collection below.


Now for my list:

24. Contact your local bomb squad - see if they will toss it in the machine the next time they have a suspicious package.

23. Toss it in a burning building - Not that bright of an idea, but would melt them pretty good.

22. Flatten it at the Indy 500 - Toss your old credit card in the path of 33 blazing automobiles and rejoice as it’s flattened into the raceway.

21. Multiple ways - If you want to make sure it's destroyed and unavailable to anyone else, then put several of these ideas together. For example, you might cut it up, then flush half of it and burn the other half.

20. Make a Collage - after I ran those cards under the lawn mower, I made a collage of sorts out of the remaining pieces.

19. Throw it in the river - Place it (or them) in a bag with a rock and then chuck it into the river. It will then be forever more at the bottom of the river.

18. Toss it in with the Cat Litter — Can’t say enough nasty things about your old credit card company? Let your cat do the talking for you. Toss the card in their litter box and giggle manically while it’s covered in, well, you get the picture. (thanks Frugalist)

17. Chain saw/Saw zaw - pin the card to a piece of wood. then attack it with a chainsaw or Saw Zaw, that would be dramatic and loud.

16. Target Practice - How about going to a firing range and attaching the card to a target and then blast it with a few bullets?

15. Thermite - combine powdered rust with ground aluminum and make thermite. It burns hot enough to melt through an engine block. (But you have to light it with a strip of magnesium, available on the Internet for a buck or two)

14. Dartboard - Put your card on the dart board and start tossing those darts.

13. Make your card famous — Post your cards demise on You Tube

12. Dryer - See just how many times it can make it through the dryer

11.“Throwing Stars” — Bring out your inner ninja and get some target practice by tying your old card to a tree and seeing how many times you can hit it with your throwing stars.

10.See how many pieces you can cut it into — Grab a pair of scissors, and see how many teeny tiny pieces you can get out of your credit card before your hand freezes up or you reach the end.

9.Piranha - If you live in or are visiting South America, you might want to feed it to the closest piranha.

8. Hot sun and the dash board - If you can cook cookies or eggs on your dashboard in the current triple digit heat, why not melt you credit card(s) on the dashboard?

7. Cook - Place your credit card(s) in the oven (on a cookie sheet) or place it in a skillet and cook it to it's death.

6. Give your fish a new toy — Want a constant reminder of your credit problems? Toss your old credit card in the fish tank and let your fish gape at it constantly.

5. Chipper - Throw you card(s) into a tree branch chipper and watch it become little tiny pieces.

4. Break into a locked room - you have seen the movies where someone breaks into a locked room or office with a credit card and it always seems to work, but chances are it will be broken into two pieces.

3. Cremate it and spread the ashes - Kind of self explanatory.

2. Shred Them - Run your credit card(s) through a shredder.

- and the number one way -

1. Mow them - my personal favorite, run a lawn mower over those credit cards like I did in the you tube video posted above.

In all cases make sure the credit card(s) are canceled before the destruction, just in case anything should be found by some unscrupulous person.
Do you have any others ideas? Let's make this list more complete. Do you know of any other youtube videos of credit card destruction, let me know so I can add them to the video reel above.