Unless you’ve made a point to reduce your junk mail by signing up with services like Greendimes, much of the mail you receive is automatically destined for the recycling bin. Every organizer will tell you that the best way to prevent those junk mail piles from taking over your home is to place a recycling bin wherever you bring in the mail so that the minute you leaf through the pile, you can drop it in the recycling. To make that process more entertaining, local furniture designer Liz Phillips came up with an ironic solution…
When Liz was living in Maine to attend furniture-making school, she discovered this gigantic mailbox at the Camden dump. Initially she considered using it as a kitchen trash can, but that notion morphed into the ingenuous idea of using it for a recycling bin. What poetic justice.
What do you use for your mail recycling bin? Any other tips for keeping mail piles from taking over your home?
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Comments (2)
as an organizer i say stop it where it starts! recycling is great but as a last resort; 1st reduce, 2nd reuse and lastly recycle.
catalogchoice.org is a wonderful site to stop catalogs
and this site stops those pre-approved credit and insurance offers:
https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t
i do like the postbox though ;0)
Cute.
What we use is a milk-crate (purchased of course). It's the perfect size for newspapers and when it fills up we take it over to the special dumpster at the elementary school where they get money for paper recycling.