Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle … take-away menus?

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:47:23 +0000

I started saving all my rubbish more than nine months ago. When you don’t throw it out, you think a lot more before taking things in the first place. I know I am stubborn, but I would give the menus right back to the restaurants, and keep doing it until they get the picture. Preferably I would give them back in the middle of a big dinner rush and have a long chat with the person who took it. It’s cruel, but eventually, they will quit.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:32:55 +0000

Tom wrote:

A quirky way of stopping unwanted junk mail is to write to them and tell them you are removing their 'Implied right of access'. An implied right of access is the assumption that you allow access to your property to people such as the postman or charity collectors etc. Having a path from the street to your door or even just having a letterbox implies the right of access from the street to the door/letterbox.

I just wrote about someone who sends back junk mail with a warning that any further deliveries will be prosecuted under the Environmental Protection Act… See The Offence of Leaving Litter :)

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:25:12 +0000

dancing girl wrote:

To reduce the amount of these flooding into your home, place a (NO JUNK MAIL) sign on your letterbox.
If that does not work try (ABSOLUTELY NO JUNK MAIL “This means you”)
I have had a lot of success with the first type of sign. It means my house has much less clutter.
The last thing we need is an enticement to eat more junk food.

A quirky way of stopping unwanted junk mail is to write to them and tell them you are removing their ‘Implied right of access’.

An implied right of access is the assumption that you allow access to your property to people such as the postman or charity collectors etc. Having a path from the street to your door or even just having a letterbox implies the right of access from the street to the door/letterbox.

Once the implied right is withdrawn, that person/organisation or their agents (i.e. leaflet droppers) are committing trespass is they do walk up your path. Civil trespass, but still trespass. Might be worth a letter just to see what their response would be.

By: How can I reuse or recycle catalogues? » How can I recycle this?

How can I reuse or recycle catalogues? » How can I recycle this? — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:14:19 +0000

[...] requested (because we wouldn’t do that) but just one spammed through the letterbox like a pizza menu. 180 pages of heavily printed paper that we’ll never use, [...]

By: frugalfox

frugalfox — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:52:15 +0000

I have a friend who used takeout menus to wallpaper her kitchen. Looked great!

By: Isabel

Isabel — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:43:18 +0000

Give to a school to have students practice reading and math or for creating a make believe restaurant.

By: louisa

louisa — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:22:30 +0000

I’ve just found another use for these flyers – cleaning up the chunky bits of cat vomit.

We usually use old newspaper (or pages from an old phone book) and grab the chunks with that but if the upchuck is soggy, it just soaks straight through. These menus tend to be glossy and good quality paper so I can use them as a little reasonably water-proof shovel.

-louisa

By: dancing girl

dancing girl — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:58:13 +0000

To reduce the amount of these flooding into your home, place a (NO JUNK MAIL) sign on your letterbox.

If that does not work try (ABSOLUTELY NO JUNK MAIL “This means you”)

I have had a lot of success with the first type of sign. It means my house has much less clutter.

The last thing we need is an enticement to eat more junk food.

By: M Bootle

M Bootle — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:56:33 +0000

If they have pictures of the food on them, you could cut out the pictures for your kids to use in their make-believe games.

By: korpsaw

korpsaw — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:11:43 +0000

Dried oysters drilled and stung look greataround your neck at the prom….cheap styles, amazing freedom

By: Cadan ap Tomos

Cadan ap Tomos — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:51:36 +0000

Very, very colourful papier mache? (ps i dont know how to spell it!)