Lately, it seems like every day I get at least 2 or 3 offers of credit cards, equity loans, and good financial deals from companies I do not deal with, nor do I intend to deal with. When I receive them, they get torn then tossed in the trash.
What a waste - someone went to all the trouble to create a computer-printed label offering me multiple means of sinking so far into debt, sunlight would be a mere memory. How inconsiderate of me to just toss these offers. So, let’s have some fun with it.
All next week - from July 10-16 - keep a tally of your junk mail. Prizes will be awarded for the most received daily, the most received in the week, the most bizarre, the most repeats, and whatever other category appears to have potential. The prizes will be, well, largely imaginary and honorary. But at least, for a week, even junk mail will be worth receiving, right?
Ooh. I have an idea. How’s about I contribute to the prize(s)?
First place will be awarded a grab bag consisting of the following:
3 usb-to-ps2 converters for optical mouse devices
2 Sony CD-RW disks
1 random surprise
I won’t be playing (the mail’s long sorted by the time I get home) but will gladly send the grab bag of prizes valued at $2.17 (!) to the winner.
Join in if you like, but you’re wasting your time. That $2.17 is mine, baby!
On a lark, we once kept all our junk mail for a month. Sevenfrickingteen pounds of it.
So, what shall the rules be? I propose:
Most junk mail each day
Most credit card/equity loan offers in a single day
Most charity solicitations in a single day
Most unusual junk mail on a single day
Then a prize in each category for the week. And, of course, the grand prize, which I propose we let UrbanChic award as the donor of that honor.
Aw, geez, you don’t hafta come up with a bajillion prizes - I thought the Grand Prize was a very generous offer. Besides, maybe other folkses might want to offer a memorial prize (or clean out their junk drawers)…
Oh, yeah, the main rule - players need to post their daily haul daily. Posts need to be made by, oh, midnight Pacific time, and winners will be declared the next day when I get on line, unless someone else does the math earlier. Candidates for most unusual junk mail need to provide a description worthy of their entries.
I think I could win a special category for freebie return address labels - I’ve been getting a lot of them. Naturally, none came till I bought a return address rubber stamp thingie… :rolleyes:
Just to let you know what you’re up against, I just got today’s mail. Four, count 'em FOUR offers of money!! That would be 2 credit cards and 2 loans. Go me and my wholesome credit rating!
Plus 2 other pieces of junk - a subscription offer from Good Housekeeping and another from the local weekly newspaper.
I once received a handwritten letter from a Jehovah’s Witness containing a leaflet entitled “Would You Like To Know More About The Bible?” (It’s currently magneted to my fridge, because I found it so amusing.) I think that should count as junk mail, because it was certainly unsolicited, but would I get extra points for something like that because it was handwritten?
