Wed 25 Oct 2006
If you draw Venn diagram-esque circles around concentrations of take-away/delivery places in Leeds, we live where three of the circles would overlap. We get thousands of menus through the door and despite being pizza fiends, we only ever even glance at a select few of them - the rest go straight in the recycling bin.
We can’t compost the menus as they tend to be glossy, colour-prints but we prefer to use stuff around the home where possible before just sending it off to be recycled.
Any suggestions?





Cadan ap Tomos
November 1st, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Very, very colourful papier mache? (ps i dont know how to spell it!)
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korpsaw
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:11 am
Dried oysters drilled and stung look greataround your neck at the prom….cheap styles, amazing freedom
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M Bootle
November 13th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
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.
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dancing girl
November 15th, 2006 at 9:58 am
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.
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Tom
September 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
dancing girl 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.
Once the implied right is withdrawn, that person/organisation or their agents (i.e. leaflet droppers) are committing trespass is they do walk up your path.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.
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Robert
September 20th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Tom wrote:
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 :)
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louisa
January 25th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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
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Isabel
August 26th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Give to a school to have students practice reading and math or for creating a make believe restaurant.
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frugalfox
May 12th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I have a friend who used takeout menus to wallpaper her kitchen. Looked great!
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September 19th, 2008 at 11:14 am
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