Project eight, streamline your mail, is just about as easy for me to mark as complete as last week’s project to downsize my book and magazine collection.
This summer I got fed up with the seemingly endless number of credit card applications and other forms of junk mail that clogged up our mailbox, and went online and found all of the opt-out options I could. We still get a lot of local advertisements, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to get those to stop, and at least the flood has slowed somewhat.
I don’t do paperless billing however. I tried it, but found that I was late on paying the bills because I’d forget about looking in my email for them. I do better with the paper bills that wait in a stack next to my computer until I get to bill-paying day. I do pay all the bills online however, so I still don’t need to hunt down stamps or worry about having enough checks.
If paperless billing works for any of you, I’d love to know how you organize it. Do you just pay bills daily so when the email comes in you pay it right away? I’m not always at my computer when I read emails so I end up having to mark it as unread so it’ll jump out at me when I am at my desk, but even then it didn’t seem to work well with my usual schedule of paying bills once a week.
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