Buried alive in catalogues

 

     It would be such a waste if our city didn’t recycle.  I struggled to take our paper recycling bin out the curb tonight.  Filled to capacity the darned thing is heavy.  We put most paper, cardboard, and pasteboard into our blue bins.  All the junk mail goes.  Sometimes my blue bin can wait for two weeks between recycling nights.  However, it seems that this week we had an over abundance of junk mail arrive and it’s not even near an election right now.  I pondered this for a while.

     Then it hit me.  Ah, yes.  The bin contained catalogues.  It had dozens of catalogues from every imaginable place for every item that exists.  Why?  “Tis the season and the catalogue storm has only just begun.

     We spent far too many hours mining through the Mother-In-Law’s house while she was in the rehab hospital.  Therefore, tonight I reminded Dear Hubby to make sure every catalogue she gets hits her bin over the next few months.  I do not want to find her buried alive under an avalanche of them some time around Christmas.

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  1. Catalogues? Catalogues? Did you say catalogues? There were four in my box yesteday, three of which I have never heard of and one of those I would have been extremely happy to have never known about. It’s interesting to watch those companies that feel they have to save money by no longer sending catalogues to regular customers, while others are sending them helter skelter to any address they can find – forget the demographics. I’m still bemused by the catalog for horse owners that found it’s way to me in the middle of a city. Have to admit, that one was interesting.

  2. I don’t understand how these ppl find us. I started getting them for new moms and pregnant mothers. I have not been pregnant in 8 years. It is just a waste of money, time and space in my little mailbox

  3. My dad’s been deceased for a year and a half and we’re still getting mail and catalogs for him–even from places we had to notify shortly after he died in order to settle his estate.

  4. Some companies can really get it wrong, we have received catalogs for steel fibers and crystal oscillators for electronics?? No one in my house or neighborhood for that matter deals with this sort of stuff.

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