Do not allow junk mail to enter your home! It seems once mail gets in the house, it takes on a life of it's own and never leaves. If you pick up your mail at a post office, throw your junk mail in their paper recyclables container. Less to take home.
If you have home delivery, keep a grocery bag (plastic or paper) for the junk mail in your garage. You can even put it in a pretty trash can or basket (found at a garage sale?) so you notice it more quickly! Less clutter and greener for the environment.
Oh, don't forget to occasionally, get rid of the full bag or you have only moved your clutter from in the house to the garage.
Thursday_Next, yep, I am sure you've not heard about it but try going to the actual counter of your local post office and asking how to have junk mail delivery stopped. Worked for me and over two years clean now ;-)
Our post office doesn't even have a wastebasket inside or out much less a recycle basket (I've never heard of such a thing in a post office anywhere that I've lived). I don't think the postmistress wants our junk mail any more than we do!
I shred all my junk mail and use it in the poultry pens in the nesting boxes instead of straw. Shredded paper is also great for mulch in the garden. The worms love it.
Depending on where you live (in US or outside), there is a website that you can register for free to eliminate catalogs. I send them back, marked return to sender when I receive stuff, until they eliminate my name (I also call the toll free number). My town has a recycle program and I check the junk mail to make sure I am not going to receive unwanted items, then it goes in the recycle bin to be picked up once a week.
I would caution about not opening junk mail if you have an American Express card. I began getting magazines that I had not ordered because I didn't respond to a seperate-from-my-bill letter from AE telling me they would send it UNLESS I asked them not to. Of course, they them added it to my bill. I had not used my AE card for a couple of years so just junked the notice. Now the account is closed and ALL mail from AE goes into the garbage.
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