Ever since my daughter was in 6th grade, I became so much more conscientious about our environment and still continue to do all I can to support the “Green Team”.
It started one day when she asked me to stop packing her school lunches in brown paper sandwich bags, and suggested to buy a cloth reusable lunch bag with a logo “Save Mother Earth”. She used that bag for a couple of years, until she made one of her own, in her Home Economics class. She still is an excellent supporter of the Green Team, and a constant reminder for me to do the same.
Hopefully all of you are already faithful supporters of “living green”, and one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to continue your loyalty throughout 2010, onwards.
I actually found a very useful website, about living green, and became a subscriber to their newsletter, which keeps me up to date with their news, ideas, and numerous tips. I have been saving many of these tips, and will make sure to post several every month, to help you to be a wiser consumer, more aware of the environment, and an active contributor to “Save Mother Earth” .
Today I will share a tip with you about cutting down on the numerous pieces of unwanted “junk mail”, which comes to your mail box, and mine, and how to put a stop to that, and at the same time save thousands of trees from being destroyed to produce this wasted paper.
You can accomplish this by some help from Catalog Choice – a free mailbox clearing service!
Catalog Choice will help you stop junk mail from continuing to fill up your mail box, and your recycling bin. They will do it with such ease, as you will never have to be put on hold by a customer service representative to get your name off the numerous mailing lists, they will do it for you.
The most favorite feature of Catalog Choice is that once you have created an account with them, they keep track of your selections of unwanted mail, and provide you with details on the progress of your request to be de-listed.
Now, all you have to do is to sign up with Catalog Choice, lay back, and figure out how will you utilize the extra time you will be saving by not reviewing your junk “snail mail”.
Also, to keep the ball rolling, please make sure you forward this information to your family and fiends, as the old saying goes: “The More The Merrier”. Remember that we all live on the same planet, breath the same air, and it takes a village to accomplish something worthwhile.
Better yet, forward them this article so they subscribe to suburbangrandma.com and stay informed with all the “ecomii tips” I have saved and will be sharing in the future.
Thank you for supporting The Green Team and our environment.
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8 Responses
Renee
January 17th, 2010 at 8:26 am
1Happy Birthday…one day late! From Nadia’s neighbor Renee! My son Ethan was 9 yesterday. I hope your day was great!
Suburban Grandma
January 17th, 2010 at 8:53 am
2Thank you very much Renee.
So I share my birth date with Sean and your son. That is wonderful.
Happy Belated Birthday to Ethan!!!
All Women Stalker
January 17th, 2010 at 9:17 am
3Yesterday was your birthday? How wonderful! Happy birthday, belated
Suburban Grandma
January 17th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
4Thank you Meream. Yes, yesterday was my birthday, and I have been celebrating this occasion for the past week, since my sons came over last weekend for that occasion, then I had a nice luncheon at work, and this weekend at home again….wow…so much attention. It was lovely!!
busymom
January 17th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
5Thank you for this wonderful post. I hope it inspires someone out there to be a little more green.
I can’t believe how many people still don’t recycle! Living in a state that does not (yet) have curbside or mandatory recycling everywhere, I understand that it is not the MOST convenient thing to collect then drive your recyclables to a collection center, but it is so easy to visualize your impact on the environment when you see your recycling pile overshadow your regular trash.
Chuck
January 18th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
6Suburban Grandma – thanks for the shout out for our service, http://catalogchoice.org.
Suburban Grandma
January 18th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
7I think that schools should put more emphasis on recycling, so that students would encourage their parents to recycle, and help out with recycling at home.
In NY state various youth groups, and sports teams, would have a bottle drive, and their parents would drive them around the neighborhood to pick up bottles left for them at the curb. Also schools would have bottle drive on Saturdays in their parking lots, and people would bring their empty bottles there. Does anyone know if these type of recycling events still take place?
Suburban Grandma
January 18th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
8My pleasure. I am thankful that there is someone like you whom we can turn to for help.
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