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Does anyone ever read the leaflets posted through the door?

32 replies

notnaice · 21/01/2015 17:27

Mine just go straight into the recycling without even looking at them.

Aibu to think that companies might as well save their money?

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AuLaitAuLait · 21/01/2015 17:29

I read them unless they're fast food menus- they go straight into the recycling box

ImBatDog · 21/01/2015 17:31

no

i'm often strangely tempted to screw them up, open the door and lob them back at the person who shoves them through too!

Thurlow · 21/01/2015 17:31

I have a quick scan. Ours are mainly for services - gardening, cleaning etc - and I do check in case it's something we might want to use. I've a store of a few somewhere too if I could remember where I put them Our lovely babysitter put leaflets through doors. That was one of the reasons I met her - I liked her enterprise.

MrsTawdry · 21/01/2015 17:32

I do if the image is eye catching. If they're all cheapo red and yellow then I don't bother. I once chased a member of the BNP down the street so that I could return his leaflet.

Hatespiders · 21/01/2015 17:33

We're registered with the Mailing Preference Service, which has considerably cut down our junk mail.
Sometimes local businesses do a village mail shot, putting leaflets through the door themselves, but I don't read them.

VeryVeryDarkGrey · 21/01/2015 17:36

I have an idle flick through every so often...i dont read them cover to cover!

SistersOfPercy · 21/01/2015 17:40

I am guilty of spell checking the take away menu Blush, though DH bought a calendar in the other week from our local 'Chinses' Grin

iklboo · 21/01/2015 17:43

We've got a 'no junk mail' sticker so we don't get many. Sometimes I'll go through one to circle spot spelling mistakes - 'mouse special pizza' was one memorable one. I hope they meant house special.

hiddenhome · 21/01/2015 17:45

No, they go straight on the fire or into the recycling bin.

Same with catalogues.

starfishmummy · 21/01/2015 17:47

Only a glance go make sure that it is junk.
On the other hand dh is an avid reader of every take away menu. I have to get rid quick or he will stash them away. Not that we use them!! (He's he same if we are out somewhere new, I will be walking along talking to him only to realise that he has stopped to peruse ever restaurant menu)

Nancy66 · 21/01/2015 17:47

I'll look at takeaway menus and keep them if they appeal.

sometimes, in the summer, we get local kids offering to do odd jobs (lawn mowing, car washing etc) for cash. I like it when kids show initiative like that so I keep those.

ChocolateOranges · 21/01/2015 17:55

Sistersofpercy

I am guilty of spell checking the take away menu

I do this. Then I hand it over to my OH to challenge if he can find the error too. Blush

maybe we should get a tv or something

TwoAndTwoEqualsChaos · 21/01/2015 18:23

Sometimes I do, depends what they are.

specialsubject · 21/01/2015 19:54

never, straight in the recycling. Where it costs to recycle them. Same as everything tucked in newspapers.

this is getting to be the only way the post office can keep afloat, sadly.

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notnaice · 21/01/2015 19:59

Yes everything tucked into newspapers and magazines go the same route too.

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FamilyAdventure · 21/01/2015 20:01

They do generally go straight in the recycling but I don't think you can help but glance at them, so if there's something I might need in the near future, like an oven cleaner or decorator and it's a local number with a proper landline and address, then I'll keep it. More likely to get my business than knocking or telephone cold calls anyway.

Surely every household has a collection of takeaway menus that have been pushed through the door Blush

morethanpotatoprints · 21/01/2015 20:02

I have a brief look at what it is, but usually in recycle.
We have kept those we think we may need though.

Pumpkinette · 21/01/2015 23:00

I read some of it - I like to see the local shops / convenience store special offers type leaflets.

All menus tend to go in the bin. We don't have takeaway very often but when we do it's from places we know and like.

I can't read leaflets from political parties - I end up ranting and swearing like a lunatic when I do. They now go stright in the bin.

Seff · 22/01/2015 07:36

We do have a collection of take away menus, although we only ever order from one place and always order online so totally pointless.

I don't read them, the 10 month old likes to play with them though.

mousmous · 22/01/2015 07:39

I have a quick scan for interesting spelling mistakes but they end up in the recycling instantly.
I cry for the trees, such a waste of paper.

ToastedOrFresh · 22/01/2015 07:42

I read them. I live overseas and get a mind boggling handful of leaflets every day. I'm unemployed so I have time to read them. They are advertising the supermarket deals, the department store deals etc etc As well as the pizza leaflets etc.

RingtheBells · 22/01/2015 07:43

Straight into the recycling including the takeaway menus, though it does keep someone in a job delivering them, even though very few must get read.

Taz1212 · 22/01/2015 07:45

I used to think everyone was like me and just put them straight in the bin, but when I was setting up my business (cakes) I spent three days dropping leaflets through doors and I got a tremendous amount of business through them! They pretty much got me up and started within a week and from a month on I was completely booked week to week.

Some people look at leaflets. Grin

Seff · 22/01/2015 08:01

I would look at a leaflet with cake on!

KingJoffreyObviouslyWatchesHol · 22/01/2015 08:05

I chuck them.

I received a letter once and on the front it said 'put this straight in the bin'.

Confused

So I did.