Junk mail has become another annoying fact of life like telemarketing calls and door to door encyclopedia salespeople. Luckily there are ways to cut down on the junk mail that you receive and utilize what you can’t avoid. These are some ideas to cut the junk mail out of your life.
If you take a minute to look through the flyers you receive over and over again you may be able to find a hotline and be taken off their mailing list. If you want to continue receiving offers from a company or store you might want to consider switching to an email list instead of wasting all that paper to get it in your mail box. You may want to join a mailing preference list where you can choose what kind of junk mail you receive if any at all and opt out of some of the junk mail that you don’t want. A good place to sign up is
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A lot of the junk mail you receive in the mail each week includes coupons for something. Instead of just throwing it all in the recycling box take a minute to go through your junk mail and see if you can use any of the coupons. If you can’t use the coupons you might be able to use the flyers for other things around the house. Here are some interesting ideas for what to do with all those flyers instead of just recycling them;
- Use flyers to create unique gift wraps for birthdays and holidays and save paper, energy used to manufacture commercial gift wraps, and money at the same time. Also you can make this look really cool with a little creativity.
- Use paper flyers and newsprint for pet training purposes instead of purchasing the expensive training paper.
- Use flyers and magazines to wrap fragile items while packing. This is much cheaper and more eco-friendly than bubble wrap, though maybe not as much fun because you can’t pop the bubbles.
- Try incorporating the brightly colored papers and letters in arts and crafts projects like collages, Paper Mache, ransom notes, or Origami.
- If there is a blank side on some of the pages you can cut it up into smaller pieces and use it as note paper for shopping lists or telephone messages.
Get creative and you can find endless possibilities for using junk mail and flyers or any scrap paper that needs to be used up around the house. If you can’t find a use for your junk mail you can always recycle it, but recycling takes energy so why not try to find a way to use it for something else first.
