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Save MORE Paper

After eliminating credit card applications and financial come-ons, the second biggest paper waste in the mailbox is catalogs.

Many catalogs are from companies we have never done business with and never will. More are from companies we bought something from just once, while fewer still are from companies we do business with occasionally. Most important though, all of these companies have websites or sell their products through other companies’ websites like Amazon.

The question becomes: how can we reduce the number of catalogs we receive in the mail? The answer is that there are several ways to do this.

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Posted by ecodaddy on January 18th, 2008 No Comments

Save Paper and Be Secure

If your mailbox is anything like mine, it holds several credit card offers or cash advance checks every day. I don’t sign up for credit card offers from random mailings, nor do I ever use the checks that come with usually outrageous interest rates. Instead, they go right to the shredder, into a garbage bag, and out to the dumpster.

What’s that you say? Isn’t that a huge waste of paper? Exactly what I was thinking! So now, what to do about it . . .

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Posted by ecodaddy on January 17th, 2008 No Comments