Life At Villa Boswell

Ok, I hate junk mail. And boy, is it tough to get rid of. My friend (the one who makes the cool beads, click on her link!) told me how I could stop my junk mail, and for a while I tried diligently, calling every time a catalog came in the mail and asked them to take me off their sell/mail list. One day, I called EIGHT catalog companies. EIGHT in just one mail drop. But, after a while, and after looking online at do-it-yourself stop junk mail sites, I just realized this was a full time job! At first I felt like it was such an invasion of my space, you know? I mean, I ORDER and PAY for a product and I get the retribution of so much junk that I have to spend hours trying to stop it? Then, after saying out loud to my husband "I wish I could just find someone to do this for me," I got the idea of searching for junk mail stopping services. Presto! They exist, thankfully. After looking around, I went with Green Dimes, which is a for-profit group that not only helps with the junk mail madness, but plants trees in various places with the money you send. That felt good. Plus, they are local to the Bay Area, so I liked that too. Visit their site, even if just to look at the cool "Water saved," "trees planted," "pounds of junk mail stopped" counters. It’s a warm fuzzy in a world of cold pricklies, I say. Also, for like $35 or so, you can send someone a gift subscription. Ok, so what does this have to do with magazine subscriptions? (more…)