You know you’ve been domesticated when an opportunity to declutter your home with little work brings tears to your eyes.
From junk mail to spam mail to phone solicitors, keeping the junk out of our homes is sometimes out of our hands. Sure, you can recycle it on your way into the house—but who sorts their mail while walking? Besides, winter’s coming up soon, and that sidewalk’s gonna be slippery. No walking-sorting hybrid multitasking for you.
So then what are you left with? Piles of junk that require more sorting, recycling, pitching, or diabolical plotting (ever sent those reply-cards with free postage back empty, or with a “surprise” in them? I usually include a leaflet about saying no to fur or something. Fun!).
Enter this wonderful website—Junkbusters. (Be sure to click the link and bookmark the site immediately!) At Junkbusters, getting rid of all of this incessant junk is the priority, and they have just about everything you need to do it quickly and painlessly.
The company’s summary page describes everything you can do at their site. Their mission is to help people “get rid of any junk mail, telemarketing calls, junk faxes, junk pages, junk email, unwanted banner ads, and any other solicitations that you don’t want, while still allowing or even encouraging what you do want.” They go on to say that they provide what you need to stop any company from sending you junk—any company! Sounds like a dream, right?
They have sample letters for you to use to ask organizations to not sell or reveal your information to their partners—and to not send you junk. There’s even a sample letter to use when asking the people who are currently sending you junk to stop.
Laws about junk mail and telemarketing are also covered on the site, which can be very helpful in knowing your rights. There are easy opt-in pages where you simply provide your phone number or address and boom—no more junk mail or unwanted calls. Sure, it might take a couple of weeks or even months to get into effect, but they’ll start to noticeably dwindle down sooner than you think.
But wait—there’s more! You can block Internet ads and unwanted cookies. You can find other de-junking sites (sort of like Progressive auto insurance for junk mail, right?).
Best of all, Junkbusters is free and able to be used globally. If you want to cut the clutter in your home, check it out today.
