Freecycling AT&T Yellow Pages

Are you serious???  Not just one, but two!  And why is “phone books” my most tagged category???  Just earlier today I was thinking that that little check-box wouldn’t be used to categorize any of my blog posts anymore.  Ha!
You can look at my earlier posts for how I feel about phone books…
If you haven’t heard [...]

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Opt In or Opt Out? Phone Books Revisited

I knew I couldn’t be the only one mad about this wasteful and useless product:
-  Blog – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anya-strzemien/how-to-stop-the-phone-boo_b_84773.html
- Another blog – http://www.commoncraft.com/how-stop-receiving-phone-books-and-yellow-pages
- Petition – http://www.paperlesspetition.org/ 
- Opt in versus opt out – http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2007/11/20/should-publishers-embrace-opt-out/
On another note, my driver’s license used to have a place where I could opt in to be an organ donor…  What happened to [...]

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“Update your contact information, and we’ll plant a tree.”

What?  If I don’t update my info, you won’t plant that tree???
End of day 2.  5 phone books still sitting outside…

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More Phone Books

So…  FIVE more phone books in the vicinity of my front door…
1 random one – I have yet to bend down to pick it up…  Partly because I don’t know if it’s mine or my neighbor’s, but more because I just really don’t want it.
4 behemoths for me and my 3 neighbors.  All four of [...]

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Sección Amarilla

“Sí funciona… y funciona muy bien.”
So says the cover of our newest copy of the Yellow Pages.  ¿Es verdad?
I mean… Seriously???  It looks like this same edition that was in Mom’s mailbox is the same edition that was beside my aunt’s mailbox.  Again, ten copies of them!  ¡¡¡Diez copias!!!
I was flipping through the front of [...]

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