Interesting Money

I’m referring to the tangible kind here, not the virtual junk mail known as SPAM.

Junk mail is a problem. Not only does it create a tremendous waste of wood and water to produce, but most of it is transferred straight from our mailboxes to a landfill.

Perhaps you are lucky and barely receive any junk mail, but if you’re like most of us, you receive several pieces a day. No thank you BoA, I don’t want a loan for my child’s education (which is especially funny since I have no children). No thanks, Terminex. Don’t call me, I’ll call you. What’s this? A group who will pray for me if I pay them $20? Um… I’ll pass.

So, that begs the question:

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For myself, I have arrived at the perfect answer. My wife and I own a house, and especially when the weather cools we like to sit on our back porch next to our lovely fire pit. All the junk mail that we receive, plus the remains of legitimate mail, become kindling for a nice evening fire.

There is nothing quite like sipping a glass of red wine while basking in the warm glow of all of those magazine and worthless credit card offers.

To be fair, I always scan the junk mail, as some of my best credit card sign-up bonus offers have been in the form of targeted mail. Anything that fails inspection goes straight to the burn pile!

As an ancillary benefit, I can take the ashen remains of the junk mail and use it as fertilizer for our garden.

So, dear reader, what do YOU do with your junk mail?