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Guess what truly terrific present I just received from Taylor Gifts! Nope.  Something even better.

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Not for personal glory.  Not for vast riches.  And hopefully, not for long. But after 6 joyous months of As Seen On TV™ silence, Taylor Gifts once again favored me with 72 full-color pages of worthless crap. O cruel wind — why does thou blow anew?

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  Do something nice for yourself this year — stop all those stupid holiday catalogs with CatalogChoice.org.

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Loose the trumpets! Sound the confetti! Off The List is 1 year’s old. How’s it feel? As empty as my mailbox.

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After receiving my 4th piece of direct mail from American Express OPEN for Business in 5 days, I have no other choice. I have declared war on American Express.

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Squeaky wheels occasionaly get something more than grease. In this case, a little smoke up my butt from Limited Too Customer Service.

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Dataquick! The DMA was actually very responsive and emailed confirmation of our opt-out registration — as of September 2007 — which I forwarded to Dataquick. Now, we’ll see just how compliant “the real estate information experts” truly are.

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The evil empire heard my plea — and shrugged.

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Did you get any of the 4 new Pottery Barn catalogs today? We didn’t!

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In my battle with Harry and David, all was not peachy.

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