Here’s what was in my mail today:
Almost two inches’ worth of catalogs. In one day. Capitalism is still alive and well, it would seem.
Here’s what was in my mail today:
Almost two inches’ worth of catalogs. In one day. Capitalism is still alive and well, it would seem.
Yes, it is that time of year. Last week, we got seven catalogs in one day…all geared towards kid stuff. Needless to say, those were either hidden or thrown out before school pick up that day 🙂
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Just in time for Halloween.
Ohhhh I love catalogs! All I’ve been getting lately is bills. Hmph.
AHHHHHHHH, Promise me you’ll recycle them – I can’t stand to see pounds of paper dumped in the trash (and my mother is the biggest culprit, oh it makes me crazy).
My only post today was a catalog – for gourmet artisan prepared food “just like you would make”. I protest… I’ve never made smoked salmon pate or haggis 🙂
Oh to get more catalogs and less political advertisements.
I love “catalog season”!
And the best part…we just moved. So I get all of *my* cats as well as the ones from the previous owners. Woohoo!
As I come back from the mailbox with a wad a catalogs, I usually start singing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
I am so with you on the 2 inches…soon it will be reaching three!
Keep that ruler handy….I bet you’ll top 4″ in the next couple of weeks. Why is it I always feel like I must read every.single.one. By the end of the week I have stacks of catalogs piled so high beside my bed its a full work out hauling them to the recycle bin.
Add to that all the paperwork that comes home from school and we are killing trees left and right!
Tis’ the season!
My kids and I love getting the stacks of catalogs that are coming in the mail, and being able to ‘window shop’ anytime, anywhere…
Isn’t it COMPLETELY insane!? I have reached the point in my mothering life where my children are actually interested in looking through the catalogs and it can keep them busy for what seems like hours (I do, however, make it clear that they will not get EVERYTHING they think looks cool)! Praying that works out for us!
Yep. I got the same thing last Thursday. I call Thursdays “Catalogue day.” The mailbox is always filled with them on Thurs. But more so now that it’s October.
Christmas is coming…
Blessings!
Oooh! I just love your new design. The colors are wonderful! It’s perfect for fall. But if I had been by earlier I would have seen it already. 🙂
I think we received our first Christmas catalog from LL Bean in September. I almost cried.
I hate getting catalogs. I seldom buy things that way and I just see all the wasted resources when I look at them. Not to mention all the catalogs I get in duplicate, for a previous resident or for my in-laws, whom I have never even lived with (very strange!) So I use this website that allows me to choose which catalogs I get and which ones I do not. It saves me time, too, because I don’t have to call the companies and tell them to stop sending catalogs, which they usually do anyway. This really does work. I seldom get a catalog anymore.
http://www.catalogchoice.org/
You may want to pass it on. I don’t have the readership that you do. Happy Holidays…in a month.
I second Catalog Choice. This (free!) subscription service has drastically reduced the number of catalogs we receive.
OH, amen sistah! My mailbox is STUFFED every stinkin’ day!! Thank you Jesus for recycling!
We were in Disneyworld a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t see ANY slowing down of the economy there!! Good grief.
tis the season to sit on your comfy chair with a cup of tea and cruise through catalogs, earmarking your desires, only to put them in a basket, never look at them again until January when you are “organizing and cleaning out” the entire house 🙂
I’m also a fan of Catalog Choice. Not only do I feel like we’re helping the environment, I don’t have the temptation to look through them. I find I’m much more content with what we do have when I’m not constantly hammered with what we could have.
Our mail has been on hold since last Thursday when we went out of town. It will all be delivered today…..I’m now nervous about it! Thankfully, I’ve learned to just look and not ( always ) order.
I know it is so bad for the environment, etc. but I will admit that I LOVE getting all these catalogs in the mail!!
Catalogs… not so bad. We are getting stacks of election stuff… do people really decide who they are voting for with a postcard!?!?!?
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