As no doubt nobody has noticed, I haven’t posted anything about my paperless experiment since the end of the first month. There’s a good reason for that. It’s incredibly boring.
One thing I’ve learned is that I get the same mail week after week. Before this experiment, I’d never paid much attention to my mail. If it looked like junk, it got dropped into the recycle bin without so much as a second thought. Now that I’ve been paying attention, I’ve seen the patterns. On Monday I get such-and-such advertising circular, on Tuesday I get another. About every four weeks, I’ll get a solicitation for the same business. It’s awfully redundant. Though I understand the need for repetition when attempting to sell a product no one actually wants.
So I won’t be bothering to post the fascinating week-by-week updates. I have continued to collect all of the data, and I will still present a result after the third month. So far, though, it’s not looking good. In fact, for some things, I may switch back to paper—the electronic alternatives aren’t quite as useful.