looking to keep your kids busy this summer - look no further than your mailbox.
set up a "postal system so as not to go postal"
kids can retrieve and SORT the mail.
ask them to throw the "penny saver" type junk mail right into the recycle bin.
now ask them to find a box large enough for the catalogs. all summer, they can fill up the catalog box with everything you aren't interested in (which is pretty much all of it. or do you really need "the peruvian collection"?) and then they can list them so that you can stop them.
there are companies (listed below) that, on your behalf, will STOP these catalogs from coming to you. some of them even stop junk mail. happy dance happy dance!
the lesson: trees glorious trees! i'd rather have them than the latest mortgage payment lowering scam, you?
added bonus: you won't be tempted to just look at the "garnet hill" sale since you KNOW you don't need anything.
