have less paper in my life

Today I went through 7 years of paper, bills, and various paper crap I’ve saved for no real good reason other than to take up space in my filing cabinet. It looks like Xmas with all the shredded paper I have I could start packing presents early this year. Anytime I get a statement in the mail I make a point to switch it to email only. Usually the turn around time is pretty quick if I get on it right away and I wont see another paper statement again. Somehow my mother’s name is floating about still and I’ve recently been getting mail for her although she’s been dead since 98. I suppose I should get her off of whatever mailing lists she’s on. Will it ever end…? It’s definitely better.

I gathered up all of my “junk” mail and called three separate companies to have me unsubscribed from their mailing list. Damn Comcast sends me something every week and I don’t even watch TV. Apparently stuff addressed to “current resident” and such means that it’s mailed by zipcode and not really because I’m on a mailing list. Basically it’s junk mail and I have to contact my post office to get myself off of that list. I think each week I’m going to gather my junk mail into a pile and call everywhere to be unsubscribed.

I have one less bank statement being mailed to me. My next goal is to get all of those crazy credit card offers to stop being mailed to me. Junk mail sucks.