I know Christmas is just around the corner because the slow trickle of junk mail in the form of the Christmas catalog is coming in the mail. Slow because since we don’t use catalogs, we don’t receive many. But the average household receives many a Christmas catalog each day which accumulate and then are thrown in the trash.

A few years in a row I purchased Christmas floral gifts from Jackson & Perkins for my sister who is in a nursing home in another state, so we tend to get gardening catalogs and L.L. Bean which Dan used to purchase clothes from. Since we’re shopping unchained they just go in the trash.

My new December issue of Mary Janes Farm had a short blurb on cutting down on catalog clutter. I got excited at the thought that I could stop junk mail. So I went to the website, but was sorely disappointed! Rather than being a site that told you how to completely stop junk mail like Christmas catalogs coming into your home because you wanted to shop locally, it was merely a site that helped you stop the catalogs, and then receive them via email! Yikes! That wouldn’t help us at all.

So I did some googling for a better solution to stop junk mail and came up with this very thorough, no-frills site. This site helps you stop all junk mail. It’s the ultimate site to help you declutter your life and save the environment at the same time.

I will be sitting down and taking the time to email places to stop junk mail — not just Christmas catalogs — but lots of other clutter as well. All types of junk mail including the dreaded and extremely pesky credit card solicitation! I throw out at least one a day and it would be a real blessing, as we say down here in the south, to not have to participate in that waste of trees and filling of the landfill.

So, please take a few moments out of your day to sop the junk mail waste coming into your home. The environment and you will be happier! Merry Christmas to all and let’s remember to shop local this holiday season!