Our mail box is up the street from our house so usually we stop by it when driving back into our neighborhood from wherever our day’s adventures have taken us. I’ll have The Hotness pop the trunk of the car and I’ll do a fast sort of what is important mail and what is just junk.

The important stuff (bills, personal letters, business mail) comes inside the car and then on into the house for processing. The junk (credit card offers, refinance offers, life insurance offers) lives in the trunk of the car for about a week until I gather it all up and do the “weekly sort and shred”.

Each week I can say that out of a whole pile of “trunk mail” I only end up finding use of maybe one piece. The rest just gets trashed because let’s face it I don’t need another credit card and I don’t have the time nor the resources to re-fi a house I just bought less than a year ago. All the junk was a waste of time and a huge waste of paper. So I did what every other red-blooded internet access having American would do when they have a problem…I consulted with Google about it.

Turns out there’s a website where you can actually opt-out of all that junk mail shit either for 5 years or forever (you get to pick your poison) and I just wanted to pass the info along to y’all. Click here to go visit and get yerself opted-out if you’re sick of dealing with tons of crap. I got The Hotness and I signed up today and am looking forward to having a lot less junk in my trunk from now on

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**Update 3/6/2007**
There were some worries from readers about the site being legit and thanks to AIS reader Steve and a little extra research on my end I can assure you that this service is 100% legit and backed by the Federal Trade Commission. Click on the “more” link below to read a little more history and information on why the website was created and who recommends using it as a security measure for your identity.
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Watching a special on E! the other day I found out that it’s now the “hot” thing in Hollywood to “go green”. Major stars like Julia Roberts are jumping on the band-wagon and modifying their behavior and lives by driving eco-friendly cars and shopping with canvas bags instead of plastic. Now usually I’m against any sort of Hollywood fad because they are either:

1. Too expensive for my broke ass to afford.
2. Will cause me to regret and possibly burn pictures of myself ten years later.
3. Make me think that money really does make people go bat-shit crazy.

But this time around I can actually support what’s going on in the Hollywood hills. I’m sure something new will come along soon and most of the green-stars will move on to the next big thing but at least for now they’re doing something right.

So I’m curious as to where does that leave the rest of us?

We here at Casa de la Bug have started converting all the bulbs in the house to compact florescent by switching out a couple a week (it’s kinda expensive to do all the lights at once). And I must admit that the light bulb thing is kinda selfish on my part because from what I understand it’s cheaper to use them…and I’m all about doing stuff on the cheap *chuckle* We are also lucky enough to live in a city that provides free roll off carts for recycling so we participate in that as well.

Are any of you guys making small adjustments in your lives? (switching out light bulbs to compact florescent, ditching the plastic bags, etc.)

Or have you jumped in with both feet and took the full greenie plunge? (purchased an eco-friendly car, converted your house to solar energy)

Or do do think this is all a bunch of crap and you have better things to worry about?