WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE OUR TREES?!

I have this vision of someone, having heard about our mysterious disappearance, breaking down our front door, only to be swept away by a tsunami of catalogs pouring out and over the balcony. Fighting their way through, the rescuers find our broken bodies under the L.L. Bean piles.

I attribute this to the overwhelming number of catalogs arriving daily. Yes, I do toss them, but if I throw away six one day, ten will be in the next day's mail.

The thing is, I do like to look at catalogs because they often have things which you can only find in catalogs. Where else can you buy Fuller Brushes these days? Or maybe "soft stuffed animals which the microwave turns into cordless heat packs"? A 6" Talking Gnome "Repeats what you say...giving it a gnome accent - just give him a hug and he'll deliver a song or your message - use it for any occasion - sure to be a big hit. Replaceable batteries included." And what I'm seriously considering: "Fluffy microfiber 'finger' soles on slippers so that you dust your floors as you glide across the floor!"

So I occasionally actually do buy something from a catalog, although I think I'll pass on the gnome, although I am kind of curious to hear what a gnome's accent is.

And Lands End does have rather nice turtle neck blouses. Yes, I know, you can buy all that stuff on line. But every time I try to buy anything on the internet I can only compare it to the Chinese Water Treatment (or Waterboarding, which, if nothing else, is seemingly quicker, that is if you survive), and I always give up in total, utter frustration.

Yesterday's LA Times had an article which reports that there is a service which allows one to "gain control over the postal flood tide that inundates them with billions of catalogs a year." See? ..."billions of catalogs...." I'm not exaggerating.

However, what this service promises to do is get your name off all lists, which, of course, means that you no longer receive any catalog whatsoever. And it isn't that I don't ever want to see another catalog, - see above - it's just that I don't want ten Harry & David catalogs within a ten day period. Some are actually duplicates. Does Victoria's Secret think we're a ten female thong-wearing family?

The article also clearly states that ".....it takes 58 million trees to produce the 3.6 million tons of paper in those catalogs. Add in the energy required to make the paper and ship the catalogs......" and well, you can imagine the rest of the environmental study.

So like I said, Won't Someone Please Save Our Trees?

Cimadb