So true. Long gone are the days where you would expect anything personal in the mail other than a birthday card. Most of my mail goes straight to the recycling bin.
Mine, too. I have a small waste bin right in my carport, so that junkmail never even gets into the house. BUT I still get royalty checks from time to time, so I have to look carefully!
When I get the rare catalog, I call the number and cancel any further. I don't need new windows or driveway coating. I don't want Horsemanship magazine for 5 cats. The horses out back do not belong to me. I tell them I'm a biker and have no room for any of those things. They mostly go away except the new windows folks. Not enough windows on my Harley...which I don't have either. FRee shipping?
Sharron, this is lovely - and so real! I'm in an infinite spiral of receiving catalogues from a single company that will NOT take 'no thank you' for an answer. I must have rung them half a dozen times to ask that they stop! I'm going to be returning their latest edition to them in person, if they're not careful.
(SUCH a cute colour for a mailbox! We have letterboxes here - just a slit (with a metal flap, because draughts) in the front door of the house.)
I’m loving your pink mailbox, sweet and dreamy as cotton candy!
Mine was once yellow to match the awnings we hung every June to welcome summer. Last year it was in an altercation with the island snowplow, and the only replacement around was black. Seems fitting for most of what’s delivered these days...
Exactly how I feel about the mail and going to my green mail box…..e-mail birthday cards aren’t even close. Sad to say these days most of my mail goes straight to the recycle bin. Kathe
Such a great piece!
Thanks Linda. A little foolishness can't hurt, right?
So true. Long gone are the days where you would expect anything personal in the mail other than a birthday card. Most of my mail goes straight to the recycling bin.
Mine, too. I have a small waste bin right in my carport, so that junkmail never even gets into the house. BUT I still get royalty checks from time to time, so I have to look carefully!
When I get the rare catalog, I call the number and cancel any further. I don't need new windows or driveway coating. I don't want Horsemanship magazine for 5 cats. The horses out back do not belong to me. I tell them I'm a biker and have no room for any of those things. They mostly go away except the new windows folks. Not enough windows on my Harley...which I don't have either. FRee shipping?
Good ideas!
I love that you are 'ever optimistic'. Maybe tomorrow Reader's Digest will come through.
Or maybe those mailboxes are just so you can leave a sweet note in it for the mailman.
Well, yes.... there is that too. A little love note and a KitKat would make his day.
Sharron, this is lovely - and so real! I'm in an infinite spiral of receiving catalogues from a single company that will NOT take 'no thank you' for an answer. I must have rung them half a dozen times to ask that they stop! I'm going to be returning their latest edition to them in person, if they're not careful.
(SUCH a cute colour for a mailbox! We have letterboxes here - just a slit (with a metal flap, because draughts) in the front door of the house.)
Thanks Rebecca! Those damn catalogs!
I think Pepto Bismol is a fine mailbox color, Sharron!
One seemingly normal day, I received a letter in my generic, apartment mailbox. . .from my college sweetheart! Let's say I'm a fan of mailboxes!
Cool!
Hi Sharron, Mailboxes don't hold the wonder and joy - they used to for me, that's for sure. Letters from friends, birthday cards, all gone.
Old fashioned mailboxes, not much in there, that is for sure.
I’m loving your pink mailbox, sweet and dreamy as cotton candy!
Mine was once yellow to match the awnings we hung every June to welcome summer. Last year it was in an altercation with the island snowplow, and the only replacement around was black. Seems fitting for most of what’s delivered these days...
Ha ha ha! Right you are, Amie. Thanks for this commiseration.
Very nice, Sharron! "Ever optimistic" - : )
Exactly how I feel about the mail and going to my green mail box…..e-mail birthday cards aren’t even close. Sad to say these days most of my mail goes straight to the recycle bin. Kathe
Thanks Kathe. I am with you.