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I don’t even get the mail. It would sit in the mailbox until the box was so full the mail carrier would not leave any more. My theory, mail is trouble, mail is bad news and mail is someone wanting money I don’t have. I stopped getting the mail after I lost my job 11 years ago. I did get it for about 2 years within that time when I delivered newspapers and my money came in the mail. Then I was cautiously eager to get the mail because the mail meant money. I still wouldn’t open the rest of it especially if I knew what it was. It got tossed in a pile, in a box, in the trunk, in the back seat, on the floor of the front seat until my daughter had no place to put here feet then it was brought in the house in bags and boxes which would sit for months or years. Most of the time i would pick out a few things i needed to attend to but that was it. I have missed birthday cards, Christmas cards, my daughter got graduation cards but she found them before they got too old (checks were involved). I have missed weddings and parties and other stuff that I really would like to have gone to.
If the mail is old enough I just toss it out without looking at it. Credit card bills from 15 years ago, who needs them? Old bills, old envelops with no return address (assumed to be collection notices) advertisements all just tossed.
My daughter gets the mail now. She hands me stuff when she thinks it might be important but if she hands me a pile of mail it remains a pile of mail unseen.
I know this is irresponsible. I used to look at the mail. I used to get it to keep my husband from getting it because he would remind me ad-nauseum of what bill to pay and when and yell at me if anything was late or had not been paid in time. I never could deal with being yelled at. Actually, now that I think of it the mail would have piled up back then if it were not for him yelling at me. He’s in a nursing home now so I don’t have to get the mail right?
I have been told about the OHIO method but it went in one ear and out the other.
I don’t know how to get past this other than getting rich overnight. If I had lots of money than bills would not be a problem then I would probably hire an accountant to pay my bills and an assistant to deal with my mail. I can dream can’t I?
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