A couple years ago, buried under unwanted catalogs with every mail delivery, I decided to join Catalog Choice. It’s easy to use (if intitially time consuming).And I think I have really stemmed the flow.
Catalog Choice saves your address and all the different ways that companies spell the names of people in your household, and each time you go to the website, you just report the name of the new catalog you have received. They already have most of them in their database.
You may also check a box from a list of possible reasons that you no longer want the catalog (help the environment? don’t like those products?). And if you want to get fancy, you can say that you would be willing to receive the catalog once a year or twice.
At first I couldn’t bring myself to cut LL Bean or Gardeners Greenhouse, but eventually I realized that as long as I’m on some lists, those lists might get shared. And I can always look online for what I want from favorite companies.
Catalog Choice notifies vendors of your wishes or (in some cases) provides a template for you to use if they have ascertained that the vendor insists on being notified a special way. Every year, the program works out more of the kinks, so keep it in mind and have less to recycle at the holidays.
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