I've been deep under cover the past few weeks - out of town tending to family affairs, etc. Life should be getting somewhat back to normal for me now, which means the blog machinery is starting to spin up again.
The picture above represents 28.5 pounds and four weeks of junk mail at my household. (For scale the yellow tape measure is three feet). I started this collection the day I signed up for GreenDimes, simply to see how effective the service is. I didn't expect to see any magical decrease in junk mail in the first month, due to it taking several months to get off everyone's mailing list. However, now I have a good baseline to work from. We'll see what happens in month two of the experiment.
(By the way, this does not include stuff I've put into the shred pile - credit card offers, etc. That represents a smaller, but significant stack of paper as well).
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