You Must Have Patience, Grasshopper

Over a year ago, I posted about getting useless junk mail. I used to get tons of it every day and then I started removing myself from the catalogs' mailing lists. My friend Unnamed had told me about the site Catalog Choice where you can enter in your request to be removed from the mailing lists and then you won't receive those catalogs any more.

Slowly, bit by bit, I received fewer and fewer catalogs every day. It is a mere trickle now. However, the other day I got a notice from Lands End saying they were just then removing me from their list. It has been a year. And, I might still receive some catalogs already in the pipeline.


They suggest that I might appreciate their e-mail newsletter instead. No, that's OK, thanks.

Everything comes to those who wait. Or, in this case, doesn't come any more.

Look at this mail.

We just brought in the mail. Look at this.






It is a coupon flyer sent to us by the good people at Papa John's, a pizza chain. Do you see the black magnet strip at the right of the flyer? That is so we will put the coupon up on the fridge and then it will be easily accessible, and then we will order a pizza and pay for it and use the coupon, and as my husband's favorite adage says, "The more you spend, the more you save!!!"

Here, is a closer look at the magnet.





Are we going to get a pizza from Papa John's? No. If we were, would we put the coupon up on the fridge? No. Is this a completely wasteful use of a magnet for us and probably a lot of other people? Yes. Am I going to rip the magnet off and let my kids make something with it? Yes. Am I turning a bad situation into a good one? Yes. Are you sick of all of these laconic answers? Yes.

I don't want calendars from real estate agents. I don't need the Bears schedule, or the Cubs, or the White Sox, or the Blackhawks, or the Wolves or the Shamrox to put up on my fridge.

STOP SENDING ME ALL OF THIS JUNK!!!

My friend, Nameless, recently sent out a link to our homeschooling group about how to get yourself off of catalog mailing lists. Here it is. http://www.catalogchoice.org/ It doesn't help with useless coupons and magnets and calendars and schedules, but it's something you can do that helps a little.

Sign me up!