Are you the unwilling victim of a constant deluge of junk mail? Is your budget for toys stretched? Does your toddler keep grabbing your newspapers and books to tear them apart?
Do not despair. These problems can all be alleviated in one fell swoop.
Every time a pile of junk mail precipitates its way onto your doorstep or into your mailbox, set it aside. Then, the next time you see your child setting its sights on the newly arrived Sunday newspaper, grab a handful from your junk mail stockpile and intercept the little one with it.
With any luck, your offspring will soon be thoroughly entertaining him- or herself by opening envelopes, studying all the pretty pictures and tearing, ripping and rending the publishing atrocities apart, leaving your newspaper unscathed.
When the carnage is over, you can put the remains into the paper recycling bin, happily in the knowledge that the junk mail was actually useful for a change.
PLEASE NOTE: Make sure there aren’t any small bits of plastic or anything else in the junk mail envelopes that your child could choke on or otherwise use to harm itself.
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Nice tip, but wouldn’t it be better to just make the junk mailers stop altogether?
I realize it’s not always that easy to make them stop, but just putting up a sticker on my mailbox has been surprisingly effective for me. The sticker just says ‘Please do not leave me any junk mail’ or something to that effect, I forget the exact wording.
Absolutely. Getting no junk mail would of course be better. In practice, though, that’s not always possible. Some junk mail distributors won’t respect your mailbox sticker, some junk mail comes hidden inside your newspaper etc. The tip is intended as something you can do with the junk mail you do get.