One of the advantages of living in an actual house in an actual neighborhood is the neighborhood garage sales. Everyone carts all their old crap they don’t want anymore out on to their yards and tries to pawn them off on anyone willing to take them away… I mean, people try to divest themselves [...]
Today is Earth Day.
So, being that that is what today is, I figured it was time for another edition of what I will from now on refer to as “Probably Not Saving The World!”
Previously on the blog, I’ve mentioned my efforts to reduce my junk mail. The first couple of steps I took helped, [...]
A while back, I posted about my efforts to stop junk mail. In January even, I posted here about how I was still getting junk. And even though I can’t seem to win the fight against direct mailings for local businesses, the war is go well on other fronts.
In particular, the fight against credit card [...]
February 28, 2008 – 5:54 am
Last week, I finally decided to call in service on my refrigerator. The panel with the water and ice dispenser in it has been loose for a while. So I went looking for the receipt and the service numbers which resulted in my sifting through the piles of papers and junk that has [...]
January 10, 2008 – 6:37 am
It has been a while since I posted about my efforts to reduce junk and go a bit green. So, here is an update…
Despite my best efforts to make it known that I do not want to receive direct mailings, it seems that there is no way to get them to stop outside of [...]
September 7, 2007 – 6:27 am
I am happy to report, my efforts are showing. I’m down now to getting maybe one credit card offer per week between my wife and I. Other junk has also cut back quite a bit, to the point where usually once a week my mailbox stays empty all day. As my requests [...]
When I began to undertake my quest of removing unwanted junk from my life, I guess I never considered how much other people might want to send junk to me. While I would never ever in a million billion years shop at the Golfsmith and would prefer to never get catalogs or coupons from [...]
Furthering my pursuit to stop junk mail, I have begun attacking the mail that I get that it addressed to previous residents of my home or people who have never lived here.
The first step is the catalogs and coupon mailers that come addressed to someone else “or Current Resident”. One previous tenant was [...]
Every day I go to the mailbox with a small sense of dread. Not for any bill that I am expecting, but the glut of junk I know I will find there. On average, I get one piece of “good” mail every three days, and ten pieces of junk per day. What [...]
