I'm one of those few people -- perhaps even the only one left in the world -- who actually enjoys walking out to the mailbox to pick up my so-called junk mail.

The reason why I like it is because each day I'll get, well, uh, junk mail, meaning that it usually is a lot of advertisements from people and companies wanting me to buy stuff from them.

As a Marketing & Business Consultant, I enjoy looking at advertising. I like to see what other people are doing, and I like to see if it changes week to week and month to month. For example, each Thursday I get seven mailers from the various pizza restaurants nearby -- I live a mile from San Diego State University -- LOL. Now if junk mail doesn't work, why do these seven pizza restaurants keep sending it to everyone; I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who gets them.

In yesterday's junk mail, I saw something that I just had to rush out and get. I threw all the mail down, told Zoey the Cool Cat goodbye, and rushed to the store. "For what?" you might ask. Why, for some white milk, of course!

What color is your milk? And how much do you pay?

We are ActiveRain!

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