I was listening to NPR and they had a short commercial for ‘Stop Phone Books’ that perked my ears, those pesky hunks of paper that appear on the front porch… only to be transported straight to the recycling bin! The City of Seattle has teamed up with Catalog Choice to make it easy for us to ‘opt out’ of receiving phone books and if you do it by May 16th you will not receive any this year. Opt-Out Directions Here and while you are at it, you can opt out of any catalogs you are receiving, easiest way I found to do this is find the catalogs in the alphabetical list provided on the website.