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Remember when going through the mail was a thrill? These days Americans get an average of 18 pieces of junk mail for every personal letter. From catalogs to credit-card solicitations, our mailboxes are increasingly clogged with clutter. Dealing with unwanted mail not only wastes our time (eight months over the average lifespan) but also bears environmental costs. Paper spam eats up an estimated 100 million trees each year, with 44% of junk mail ending up--unopened--in landfills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De-Cluttering Your Mailbox | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...states have debated Do Not Mail proposals. But none has passed--and who knows if any ever will. Will Craven, a spokesman for Forest Ethics, says that's partly because marketers pour millions of dollars--and lobbying savvy--into manipulating our mail: "We now have a runaway supply of junk in the face of shrinking and even resentful demand." (See TIME's special report on the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De-Cluttering Your Mailbox | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Never buy anything that's on sale. That's always junk. You're just buying it because it's cheap.' ?Isaac Mizrahi, on surviving the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...prison sentences and granted 14 pardons--most of them to people convicted of crimes like tax evasion, drug offenses and fraud. The coming end of his term has led to speculation as to whether Bush will consider higher-profile petitions, including requests from disgraced former Olympian Marion Jones and "junk-bond king" Michael Milken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

eBay may be the ultimate collector's resource, but it kills some of the fun. Sitting in your pj's doing keyword searches for Pez dispensers is not the same as pulling off the road to explore a junk store and finding a prize. Collecting involves more than just buying a full set of something. It is the quest for a family reunion: the posters for all 15 Houdini movies from 1919, all 177 pieces of a Minton dinner set. There's the possibility of failure and the hope for immortality. That helps explain why we have 17,500 museums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama, and the Rush For Election Souvenirs | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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