There are really very few things in life that I am lazy about. Probably at the top of the list is cleaning my bathroom...I just hate doing it. Second would be doing laundry, and third would be checking the mail. I don't know why I don't like checking the mail. I suppose that if there was going to be something that I'm expecting coming on its way besides my monthly bills, I might be more motivated to make the walk across the apartment complex campus to check my mail more often. Since I'm so bad about checking the mail, a few months back I delegated the duty of checking the mail each day to my roommate since he loves checking the mail. That has worked out very well, because he always gets the mail and nothing ever really piles up in the small mail box that we have. Well, with my roommate out of town for a seven week period this Summer, which has just started, it's going to be up to me to check the mail on a semi-regular basis, just in case there is anything important that either of us need to get a hold of. In my true style, it's been a week since he left, and I only checked the mail for the first time today. I'm sure glad I ended up doing so, because I don't think that the mailman could have possibly crammed one more thing into our mailbox, although I'm sure that he would try. At first seeing all of the mail, I figured that there was going to be at least something pretty important for either my roommate or me in the huge pile that I pulled out. I was disappointed to find that nothing looked all that great. The thing that really got me though was the amount of financial junk mail that I had received in just one week's worth of mail. I guess I usually just dismiss what I get on any given day and tear it up with other advertisements, coupons, and the like, and just put it in the trash bin. Today was pretty shocking, since out of the pile of twenty-two pieces of mail, sixteen of them were for me, and of those sixteen, thirteen of them were credit card offers, loan offers, and student loan consolidation offers. Of those credit card offers, five of them were for the exact same credit card and the exact same deal. I mean seriously, do these companies have the money to throw away on sending the same person five stuffed envelopes with the same offer in the same week. The sadder part is that this exact same offer is one that I have seen so many times before and have continued to throw away. You would think that somebody somewhere might get the idea that if I was going to respond to their "Please respond within fifteen days" offer, that I would have done it by now. I guess that's just me giving them too much credit. haha...no pun intended actually. Anyways, I just don't get all this bombardment with financial junk mail. I don't think that I've ever once take a piece of it seriously. Most of the time, I don't even bother opening the envelope. I just tear it up or shred it and throw it away without giving it so much as a second thought. If I, heaven forbid, wanted or needed another credit card or a loan, I would go looking for it myself. I would surely never wait around and see what offers I was going to receive in the mail on any given day. I have even less patience for this postal mail spam than I do for email spam, because at least the email spam is only taking up room in my spam inbox. It's not going to take up room in my regular postal mailbox, and it's surely not going to be killing trees. Gosh, it just makes me so upset to know that these companies are wasting natural resources and money like they are. I'm sure that if I'm getting this many credit card offers, for example, in one week, there have to be tens or hundreds of thousands of other people across America getting these same offers. I just wonder how many people even bother looking at them. Maybe it's just that I have a problem with solicitation. No one, I repeat no one, wants to be solicited. It's just crazy. As a person who has the ability to go get a loan or another credit card, I know full well when it is that I would need one, and I know where to look. I don't really need to be bombarded with financial junk mail with my personal information on it every single day or every single week. That's just a breeding ground for identity theft, and I hope that some time someone down the road will put an end to it.