I’ve signed up at Catalog Choice where I can cancel any catalogs that are coming into our home- with or without being invited. If you’d like to sign up, it’s free and will just take a couple minutes of your time. Have the customer code handy so that you can get rid of an unwanted catalog for good. They do say it could take up to 10 weeks. Eep.
I’m sure you’re aware of the environmental costs of catalogs. Here’s one to whet your appetite:
Over eight million tons of trees are consumed each year in the production of paper catalogs.
If you like getting catalogs, consider getting rid of the ones that you don’t even look at- or don’t look at often enough to necessitate receiving it. Then, to cut down further, try looking at the catalogs online. Most, if not all, companies have an online equivalent of the print version. If after a month, you think you could cancel another catalog, well then congratulations. Little by little you can rid yourself of unwanted paper.
I say this, as I sit at the computer almost entirely submerged under paper bills and receipts. {Sigh}
Check out this CNN spot.
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susan // November 9, 2007 at 9:07 am |
Thanks for this info. I receive a beautiful,shiny, thick catalog from a Korean vitamin company, but it is in a language I don’t speak. Writing to them doesn’t do the trick … but this web-site you’ve shared will certainly be helpful. Thanks. Keep up the good info flow.
+mojan. // November 10, 2007 at 9:34 am |
Great information. When we were living in the U.S., it was so frustrating that signing up for one catalog meant that another four companies would send theirs too. I remember spending an entire afternoon just trying to get off mailing lists. Ugh.