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So, to Roe's reccommendation, I'm going to post on other domestic matters. Since I never seem to cook much of consequence. Though I am tempted to do a little baking this weekend. I'm going to try some cupcakes maybe.

Anyway...

Do any of you have this problem?

Piles of unopened mail.

They haunt my dreams. They haunt my waking hours.
Here's the issue. I rarely even open my statements, and what not, because I get most of that info delivered to me online. And almost all of my bill paying has gone digital. From automatic withdrawls, to online bill pay through my bank, there just isn't much need.

So, if it doesn't have a handwritten address on it, or it's not something I've been waiting for. It tends to get thrown in the "I need to file this pile".

I'm now on the 3rd style of mail basket. First there was the wall hanging basket, that was just pointless, it got full way too fast and then the pile just migrated to the kitchen table. Next there was the Inbox style plastic thing from staples. That only had 3 sides, so you can imagine how long that lasted. Now we're onto the deeper rectangular sized basket. And that works pretty well, until someone throws a CD or a hat on top, and things start to slide off.

Yes, a couple months can go by before I decide to actually open and file these into my yearly expandable file. So as you can imagine, this year has been pretty busy, and Adam's schooling and my making my sister's wedding favors have used up spare time rather than opening mail I didn't need to read. So yesterday I went through it all.

Between junk mail, statement inserts, coupons for free pen sets, and empty envelopes, I filled up 4 grocery bags full of paper. They weren't stuffed to the gills, but wow. What a waste of paper and natural resources.

So, I'm starting a new "Mid-Year Resolution".

• I'm going to weed out the junk mail daily and only keep what's necessary in "Mount Postal"
• I'm going to try to remember weekly to file away the week's mail.
• I'm going to request electronic delivery with more of my bills. I already get that with Verizon, and it uses up so much less paper.

So that's that... keep me honest people.