A thing I don't miss

I just finished my weekly Skype date with my mom. We try and talk every Sunday and it is a great way to keep in touch. Plus it is fun to see each other instead of just talking on the phone. During our conversation today the topic of junk mail came up. At home in Durham, we get a ton of junk mail each week. My mom was commenting that she is in the same boat. Coincidentally, I read this weekend that there are approximately 100 million trees used each year to send junk mail to Americans. Wow!

I don't get junk mail here and I have to say that I don't miss it. By now we all know just how much I love to receive mail. However, in my world junk mail does not constitute true mail. I realize that it gets delivered from a postal person and resides in your mailbox until you retrieve it but it just doesn't count. It is the lowest of the low when it comes to mail...it is even below bills. At least with bills you get a service or an item in return for paying them. Junk mail...you get nothing but the joy of having to shred the contents to ward off potential identity thieves.

So, while there are a lot of things about home that I do miss - junk mail is not one of them!