Can't see the forest for the catalogs
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 11:11AM It is almost November, and that means that the springs of the postal delivery vehicles are sagging under the weight of a thousand catalogs. This time of year your mailbox, like mine, is stuffed with glossy, high-clay paper. Retailers all over America want you to buy more cheap plastic crap from sweatshops in China, or perhaps expensive organic cotton crap made by indigenous worker cooperatives in Peru.
There is a way out, before the forests (and your wallet) are stripped bare. Grab a stack of catalogs, go to CatalogChoice.org, register, and start entering customer numbers. They will get you off the mailing lists and in ten weeks or so your mailbox will empty. You can go back to the site as more catalogs come in and nix them as well.
A friend of mine tipped me off to this a few days ago and I immediately started ripping through my recycling bin like a mighty catalog hunter. Now you, dear readers, can enjoy the same satisfaction.
Reader Comments (2)
Has this been effective? Then I want to start recommending it like crazy!
Cassandra,
I don't know whether it is effective yet. The site says that it can take ten weeks to get off a list, and that just before Christmas you are stuck no matter what. I'd say most likely.
M.H.