Comments on: Haiku 392

By: Marisa

Marisa — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:06:29 +0000

if you paid for the frames with a credit card, then it might be easier to locate the statement online showing that you paid. you can also reference the transaction number.

By: johanna

johanna — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:26:46 +0000

my old house is huge

grandparent’s ephemera

packed tight in one room…

and we won’t even talk about the many
years and years of my stuff.

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:12:50 +0000

I know, I know… I should deal with the catalogs. I did this once and it wasn’t so hard but it did take some effort to call the company of every single catalog I get in the mail. I get A LOT of catalogs. I’ll get to it when Penny goes to nursery school.

But that’s not the only problem. Is it just me? I find the paper trail of life just extraordinarily complex. And I find that companies make a lot of mistakes. Somewhat related to paper… a huge amount of things I buy are already broken or end up breaking very quickly. What do I do with that? And do I have time to deal with it?

Not usually. So broken things as well as boxes of papers sit in my basement.

By: mary hatch bailey

mary hatch bailey — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:02:26 +0000

What happened to your Green Dimes membership??? Or whatever they’re called now.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:34:12 +0000

Call the catalogs and tell them to cancel. That’s what I did. It takes a few months, but they stop coming.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:49:35 +0000

Yeah, I have some immediate “To-Do’s” that are located somewhere in those boxes.

One is that I need to find a receipt for some frames that I purchased a year ago in New York. Now the framers are calling me and harassing me and saying that I did not pay.

The other issue is related to some hospital bills.

When did life get so complicated with papers? Everyday I have about 5 useless catalogs mailed to me along with other junk mail. Papers papers, papers. Perhaps Yuki can shred as you said, D. Gale and my little family and I can go live off the grid.

By: D. Gale

D. Gale — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:42:36 +0000

Well, at least you bought a living shredder recently. She should take care of a good deal of the backlog.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:28:25 +0000

Ha! We moved in here six years ago and there are still boxes of papers shoved in the back of a closet. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to clean them out!

Two weeks ago, I finally made it through my box of 8th grade lesson plans! OH, those classroom memories! Next on the list…my box of ESL lesson plans