I think we’ve pretty much determined that most of us aren’t big shoppers, so I’m assuming that if we didn’t give Black Friday much due then we would have the same attitude about Cyber Monday. At least there were fewer commercials.
Imagine my surprise to come home from work on Cyber Monday to find my mailbox FILLED with glossy catalogs. Every couple of years I fill out the No Junk Mail registry but clearly this is a task that needs doing a little more often. Of all these catalogs, I have only purchased from two of them and one of those was over two years ago. I haven’t even HEARD of a couple of these companies. It was particularly disturbing to get TWO catalogs from one company on the same day.
The irony of getting a box full of catalogs on the day we should all be shopping online isn’t lost on me and it’s a little frightening to think of all these catalogs filling up our landfills at this time of year.
The chances that I might glance through some of these before they hit the recycling? Maybe 50%. Chances that I will order anything because I got these catalogs? Zero.
What irony is striking you this week?
Trail Baboon 
Minnesota may lose a fine Senator while a horrible President remains in office.
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I think we might need a new word for such awful irony.
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At present it is that the very time a person needs good sleep is often when they can’t get it…
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Things are winding down from our friend’s move and sale of his house, so I may get my life back soon. No wait, here comes Christmas…
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Just a clarification…….if the catalogues are recycled, they don’t go to the landfill.
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Yes, if only we could alert the masses.
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Yes at my house they going to the recycling. But I was thinking about all of the households across America where people just toss them into the trash and don’t worry about recycling.
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Yup, I just got a bunch of catalogs over the past week as well — many of which I don’t ever purchase from. However, I do highly recommend and love the Coldwater Creek catalog I see in your picture!
Awful irony — I work for a financial company, but my personal finances are abysmal.
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I like looking at the Coldwater Creek catalog as well. I’ve never bought anything, although I like to envision a future where I can afford to buy something from them.
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I sometimes find their things at thrift shops… 🙂 And J. Jill…
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I’m not getting the emails of the blogs any more. I get the notifications of the ‘likes’, but not the actual blog.
I’ve just clicked the box below again so we’ll see what happens in the morning.
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My emails disappeared years ago and I have never been able to get them reinstated.
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Sorry – let me check w/ WordPress again….
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Just saw this on a tee shirt.
Hyphenated. Non-Hyphenated.
That’s irony.
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And what about “ironical” – is that a word?
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If poetical is a word, (it is in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night) then I would think ironical is a word, too.
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that came from your brainacle
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Gardening catalogs are starting to arrive.
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I find it ironic that now that I’m retired and (theoretically) have time to do many of t he things I didn’t have time for when I was much younger – ice skating comes to mind – I now don’t have the energy to do them.
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I can relate to that.
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i find it ironic that my brain can’t do poet stuff but
my good fat old brainacle
is feeling ironicle
it’s possibly trainable
but i’ve lost my monocle
i’m feeling poetical
i’m wearing my haticle
it’s all theoretical
but very emphatical
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