Yellow Pages

[Catalina]

Every year we still get 3 or 4 Yellow Pages.
And the ritual is always the same, we stack them in the far corner of our office closet and once
we get ready to do some spring cleaning we throw them in the recycle bin.

Makes you wonder why we even bother keeping them that long. I haven't really used one in a over decade or so.
With all the information handy on the Internet, why would I?
A quick search on the computer takes less time than finding the info in one of those awkward big books.

But I guess they still serve a purpose since they are still being printed.

Does anyone of you still use them?

Catalina

 

[Vassago]

I've wondered the same. We have literally stacks of them still in plastic that are sent to the recycler every year because nobody uses them. I know mine stayed outside for the longest time before I finally bothered picking it up and bringing it in the house, just to collect dust in an abandoned kitchen cabinet. No, I don't think they really serve much of a purpose anymore.

 

[Fifty2One]

Handy to have if a leg breaks off your favourite parlour chair, you can prop up the broken corner. Also handy to start the wood stove and the old oil burner in the workshop at the back of the barn.

 

[boblarson]

Handy to have if a leg breaks off your favourite parlour chair, you can prop up the broken corner. Also handy to start the wood stove and the old oil burner in the workshop at the back of the barn.

 

[Vassago]

Handy to have if a leg breaks off your favourite parlour chair, you can prop up the broken corner. Also handy to start the wood stove and the old oil burner in the workshop at the back of the barn.

Actually, for a fire pit, that's not a bad idea!

 

[Catalina]

One of my grandsons once found a way use them.
He ripped out all the pages and tried to fold them into paper planes.
They wouldn't fly very well since the paper was too thin.

By the time he gave up on the project the whole living room floor
was covered with yellow paper.
When his mom urged him to help clean up the mess he response was:
"I'm too tired". No wonder he was tired, it was a big book.

Catalina

 

[Fifty2One]

Good to find 'alternate uses' for unsolicited paper goods delivered to you.
We also use junk mail under the PTO housing of our old tractor because it weeps a little oil. At least it stops it from seeping into the ground in the equipment shed.

 

[Berkshirelad]

When we get junkmail with pre-paid or freepost labels, I tend to send them a copy of yellow pages.

Their postage bill might start to slow them down a little...