Great post, Ray! Thanks.
There will be no bank account from which anyone need try to wrest from me, so I'm good there.
We don't get hearing aid ads in the mail, but my Dad gets them every month. He'll be dead 6 years in August. My mother still gets solicitations from the Xavarian Brothers. She died in 1981. I send back the donation form and the small "donation" envelope, as it's content alone will get any attention.
For my Dad, in the "amount," I write "0," and I have a red rubber stamp that says:
"My father, Walter A. "Kay," is as dead now as he was after August 5th, 2008. He left no estate and I did not inherit his sense of charity. Please remove him from all of your mailing lists."
It took 6 months of repetition, but I get get it down to about one piece a month for him, from one or more daily. I have never notified Xaverian Brothers of my Mom's passing, because I want to see how long that will take for them to figure that out. I must remember to leave directions in my will about to whom those requests should be forwarded.
Great idea about the "nearer to the mailbox" junk mail bin. We came of age on the 60's and never allow ANYTHING to leave this house with names, addresses--- no identifiers of any kind, especially prescription labels. We do recycle the bottles. They will not accept the caps!?
As to Euro River Cruises, The Dutch and Norwegians are the tallest peoples in Europe. Good places to start for longer beds.
Re: The Phone Calls
Having had unlisted/unpublished #'s my whole life has really helped minimize that stuff. Plus, we have really strong telemarketing laws here with nasty fines, so those things help.
I had a friend with too much time on his hands when the kids were in school (he worked from home). He would ask really personal questions of the caller, then ask if they would call him every day and become his friend, since he didn't have any.
The game was always to get them to hag up on HIM!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not above that. However, I need an audience. Doing by yourself is just, I dunno, sick.
