Comments on: Get rid of catalog clutter

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:51:30 +0000

Thanks for the catalog link. I did this over a year ago and had the catalogs well managed. Then we moved. The United States Postal Service can’t forward a 1st class letter in a timely fashion [30 days], but they did notify every retail catalog. I have never seen so much junk mail, and it makes me very, very angry. What a waste.

By: In MD

In MD — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:56:16 +0000

I’ve been using Catalog Choice since March 2008. As of July 2008 I receive MORE catalogs. What’s worse, one of the catalogs I declined in April 2008, AJ Prindle, subsequently sold my name & address to another catalog that I began receiving July 2008. How do I know? I had used a unique shipping address with AJ Prindle. It’s never appeared anywhere else until July 2008.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:42:12 +0000

I’ve been a member for several weeks now and even though the site warns that it takes 10 weeks to process a request, in the past few days I have not received a single catalog. Progress, for sure.

By: A Non

A Non — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:42:43 +0000

How does this compare to http://www.greendimes.com/ ?

By: angela

angela — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:11:18 +0000

I also get the mail for my work, and have been adding the unbelievable amount of catelogs we get here….we get literally 5 dell catalogs a day. Still waiting to see if it works!

By: twosandalz

twosandalz — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:07:20 +0000

I used to call the catalog companies directly to be taken off their mailing lists, which usually entailed time spent on hold. What a time saver this is!

By: Lady S

Lady S — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:50:44 +0000

I heard about this on NPR just recently and signed up. I am so glad I did. I think I got 4 LL Bean and 4 Land’s End catalogs just since Thanksgiving. I have signed up for about 8 different ones so far, and plan to do everything I get, as I get them. I am glad they do this for free. I have seen other “de-junkmail-er” sites that were for a fee. I am going to spread the word on this one.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:00:36 +0000

@Michael: If you’re wondering which catalogues are in their database it’s nearly everything — all of the big ones and many more that I had never heard of but received recently. There were a handful that they didn’t list (some very obscure ones) but you can submit a request to add those to the list and they email you with a notification when they have done so.

A great service. I have already unsubscribed from 65 catalogues!

By: Esme

Esme — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:26:28 +0000

Oh my goodness, Christmas has come early! Thank you so much for the information on Catalog Choice. Last March, I accidentally did not opt out when buying a present for niece and nephew online and now I receive about six kid’s catalogs a week (no exaggerating!) Plus, my father passed away last year and all his mail is forwarded to me. He was a catalog junkie. Before all this started, I was already getting several a day. One of my resolutions for 2008 was to figure out how to stop all these catalogs from coming. Now I don’t have to wait until 2008.

I signed up immediately. All it requires is an email address, not really any personal information (I have a kind of junk email address that I use for these things.)

By: Andamom

Andamom — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:32:16 +0000

I wrote a post back in October about ways to minimize clutter before it comes into the house. I list 18 ways to accomplish this including the cancellation of catalogs –> http://andamom.com/?p=188

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:37:17 +0000

Pity Catalog Choice doesn’t list their participating merchants without you needing to create an account. Privacy Policy or not, I’m not inclined to sign up for an account and give them my personal information before being able to determine if the catalogs I receive, and don’t want to receive, could be declined through their service.

By: Trish T

Trish T — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:30:41 +0000

I’ve called Sears twice to get them to stop dropping off catalogues in front of my door. The wad of paper doesn’t even make inside and goes directly into the recycling box. I keep getting them, though. And I’ll never shop at Sears again..

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:14:40 +0000

Thank you for this post! It’s always bothered me how much of the Rain Forest is lost so that J.Crew, Spiegel, and others can send me 8,302 catalogs that go directly into the recycling bin. I only read about 10% of the catalogs I get.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:04:33 +0000

These no-junk-mail services are almost always US-based. Does anybody know of a Canadian one? (or other countries, for other readers)