You know what I really really hate… Spammers! It makes me so angry to login and find I have 50 comments to moderate. None of which are from anyone I actually know or care about. It’s all fricken spam. Cheap Cialis online, Buy Now. Free ringtones. Check out this porn.
I’m so incredibly over it! Not only is it through this here blog but my email, myspace, my photo gallery. Every possible avenue. So aggravating! Not that it’s so hard to go through and just delete spam comments or emails or friend requests, it’s just the principal. I don’t want your stupid drugs or porn or especially not your crappy ringtones. This also carries over to my home phone where every call comes up ‘unknown name unknown number’ and my mailbox jammed with credit card offers and the ‘Local Values’ papers. Sick of it! It’s all garbage. I’d almost rather someone put a big pile of poo in my mailbox at least then I could use it as fertilizer.
There has to be something we can do. There’s obviously something we are doing that makes this a viable way of advertising for these people. It’s worth it to them to continue marketing in this way.
Here’s a list of somethings you can do to reduce garbage and waste in a few of these areas. Some of these things a specific to Chicago so if you live somewhere else you might have to do a little research.
-Sick of getting 500 of those Shop Local flyers from the Tribune everyday that inevitably get thrown on the floor or the ground by your mailbox
Call – 800-998-2339 give them your address and ask to removed from the mailing list. If you notice there are ones being sent to apartments that don’t exist in you building go ahead and remove those too if you feel so inclined. Unless you really love those things then never mind.
-Sick of getting all those credit card offers in the mail that inevitably end up in the garbage
Call – 1-888-5-OPTOUT
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/optoutalrt.htm
It takes a couple minutes and will save you massive amounts of junk mail and garbage. Unless you really like getting those things then never mind.
-Another good thing that takes a minute. Send a quick email to your alderman about implementing Separate-Bin recycling in your area. It’s been started in a couple neighborhoods and is on it’s way to being rolled out city wide.. Help keep the ball rolling.
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls
As I am writing this my phone is ringing with ‘Unknown Name Unknown Number’ UGH!
Anyway I feel a little better. Now I’m going to go outside with my puppy and play in the nice spring weather! Hopefully I don’t get solicited by a panhandler 
One more quick thing.. If you have a dog and it poos in the snow please pick it up for chrissake. The snow melts eventually and the poo is still there. Our bushes are full of it along with the aforementioned Local Values papers and a wide array of garbage. Eeeeww.
Okay now I’m done