I grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the backwoods. Our phone book was a 5 x 7" size with not many names. As a kid we had a party line, so you could eavesdrop on neighbors' conversations unless you had parents like mine who carried a dim view of such stealth. The problem was marathon talkers; there were times you had to interrupt and politely request use of the phone. We also rotary dialed only the last four numbers of anyone's phone number. It was a simple life...
Nowadays, we not only get one monstrosity of a phone book, but three others with exclusively yellow or white pages highlighting the same area businesses! How many do we need, especially with the Internet? Multiple phone books clutter up our lives. Just keep one and toss the others (or recycle them). I don't even bring the extras into the house. When I see a sodden new yellow pages book sitting in my yard (always delivered in the rain), it immediately goes into the recycling bin.
Thank you for giving me today's de-clutter item. I'm recycling my phone books :) Yesterday I went through some Nov and Dec magazines and recycled those.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jennifer was in gymnastics, she and I participated in a delivering phone books fund raiser. We got a certain amount of fundraising credit for each phone book delivered. We were required to ring the door bell and hand the owner two or more fat phone books. We had a list with names, addresses, and number of phone books. If they weren't home, we could leave the phone book on the front porch.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I only want 1 phone book.