Who needs this junk?

With the exception of greeting cards and thank-you notes, the only mail I get that I am interested in is e-mail. It's actually kind of a bother to stop at the mailbox every day. And when I do collect the mail, it's so frustrating that there is so much JUNK that I'm afraid I might miss something important hidden amongst the mass of catalogs, flyers, coupons (which I never use) and credit offers.

Friday, when I was driving back from Florida, I listened to NPR almost the whole day. I learned so much! One "sponsored by" thing came on...they don't have ads per se...that offered some relief for my mailbox monster.

There is a website that helps you to contact the producers of direct mail pieces and catalogs in order to opt out of (what I consider) junk mail. (Click on the link below to get to the how-to guide for eliminating junk mail.)

I am thrilled with the prospect of having less mail to sort through every day. But more importantly, stopping the majority of junk mail will eliminate 75 pounds of waste every year. I promise that in a few weeks, I am going to check back in and let you know if I see a difference. I might even keep track of the stuff I get day-to-day and see if and how the junk mail declines. Join me if you want. Let me know if you do and I'll post a link to your blog.

And don't you just love the tagline, "Dedicated to effecting positive change through incremental conservation?" Even though I think it should be "affecting." Incremental change I can handle and grammatical errors for a good cause I can forgive!

Di

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[JoAnn]

EFFECT is okay here, according to my "source"

verb [ trans. ]
cause (something) to happen; bring about : nature always effected a cure | budget cuts that were quietly effected over four years.

Thanks for the link. Now on to plastic bags, of which an average of 400 per year are used by every American. Appalling!