{"id":99,"date":"2005-08-30T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2005-08-30T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T07:23:00","slug":"so-ive-ben-getting-a-lot-of-junk-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"So I’ve ben getting a lot of junk mail…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>… I mean seriously, a LOT. One place has sent me at least 3 things a week wanting to sell me mortgage death insurance or something. I’m really not exaggerating that – it been about 3 a week since I moved in. So, I decided to make some use of the postage-paid envelope they send.<\/p>\n

This is the first one. I didn’t send the quarter, that’s just for reference. And bag of unraosted coffee from Sweet Maria’s is just a shamless plug for them. This one contained 15 pages of coupons from one of those local ‘magazines’ you get every other day. It also had instructions for a slip ‘n slide (sorry Val! I think you’ve got the hang of setting it up now though) as well as a dozen coffee beans.
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\nHere’s the second one so far. Another dozen pages of coupons, a few that Krogers sent me (expired), the cardboard backing for a sprinkler nozzle I just bought, and everything to setup a Netgear wireless router – including CD, registration card, instructions, and the plastic it came in. You can see the CD is bent in half in the middle picture. I decided for giggles to write “DO NOT BEND” on the envelope too. The last picture is a top-down view of said contents.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Half the fun is deciding what all to stuff into the envelope. I mostly try to put other junk mail in it. Maybe I should write a note? I almost put a bug I just killed in there, but thought maybe that was too much. I might put an unopened condom in the next one… or maybe just an empty wrapper. I’ve heard one guy taped it to a brick and mailed that – that’s good thinking there. Or maybe a book of matches – hopefully the person that opens it will be tempted to burn the place to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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