Catalogs

After buying a few things on-line, I started to get catalogs. No biggie, they were entertaining to flip through and then I dumped them right in the recycling. It's never a problem if they're from stores you like. But once I bought a gift at Pottery Barn baby and then I started getting kid catalogs sent to me (and I have no kids). Add in a few magazine subscriptions, and then you start getting catalogs from stores you didn't know existed.

Once I got my eleventh JCrew catalog for the season (yes, they have early- mid- late spring catalogs all filled with the same stuff in case you didn't see it the first time), I stumbled upon CatalogChoice.org in the newspaper as a way to eliminate catalog waste.

Basically, you sign up and report the catalogs you're getting that you don't want and they make a request to the company. And best of all, it's free.

So if you want to stop getting those annoying unsolicited catalogs, then this is one way to do it.