Tis The Season to Unsubscribe!
by Katy on November 26, 2024 · 3 comments
My email inbox is clogging up fast with black Friday deals to “Upgrade your sheets today” and “Lights, camera, black Friday action!” I made a decision in 2006 to stop buying new and haven’t looked back. Buying used saves money, keeps perfectly good items out of the landfill and is simply the most sustainable choice.
However, this influx of Black! Friday! Deals! gives me the perfect opportunity to scroll to the very bottom of each and every email and click “unsubscribe!” It’s like all the retailers are lining up to make it convenient for me to banish them from my life. Cool, thanks!
So as we usher in the holiday season, let this be an opportunity to unsubscribe from the advertisements that only serve to clutter your life and empty your wallet.
Unsubscribe. Do it!
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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I had to chuckle because unsubscribing was something I have been doing too. I feel like I am being bombarded by multiple announcements of sales and offers.
Generationally I am in “unload” mode and am trying to find good homes for my treasures or donate them. The holidays can be such a financial fiasco. I am past buying gifts because I need to give someone something to unwrap. It’s consumables, gift cards and cash these days. Ot regifting.
Thank you for frequently posting lately – you help me stay sane. Smile
And posting frequebtly is helping to keep me sane! Somewhat, it’s subjective.
It’s so cathartic to free yourself from excess stuff — it literally creates more circulating air to take that deep breath.
I need to sort through my credit card preferences to determine which emails I can unsubscribe from. Things relating to my actual use–yes. “Offers” to buy hotel points, take vacations, lower my interest rate (which is irrelevant since I pay the balance in full every month), use payment plans (ditto)– those are just clutter.
Inspired by the recent post about what we live without, specifically someone’s comment about not having television to not see advertising, I spent a while contemplating TV ads. I can’t remember the last time I bought something because I saw it on TV. Perhaps when I was a child I wanted a few toys. But as an adult, my spending patterns are so set that appeals for cars, jewelry, electronics, department stores, restaurants, beer, or cleaning products don’t tempt me. Because of our age, the shows we watch are heavily sponsored by health and life insurance, drugs and disease scares, charities, and car protection, all unnecessary. Our habit is to hit the mute button during commercials or fast-forward something on the DVR. The only advertising that is “effective” is sometimes I see a commercial for another show I might want to watch.
Similarly, I do not notice advertisements on webpages or streaming service programs, as I have trained myself to look beyond or beside them or click them off without processing them. A non-consumer is a non-consumer!