How many times a week or month do you receive a cookbook offer in the mail? I swear at times it seems like there's one in my mailbox every other day.
I really wish the distributors would stop sending me their envelopes full of enticing pictures of foods that I have no business eating. And I really, REALLY wish some of them would stop including a letter telling me how I can eat my way to a diabetes free life. I'm tempted to mail those back along with a letter telling them how full of crap they are. I haven't done that, yet, but I wouldn't put it past me.
Simply put: I Do Not Want Your Cookbook!
I have plenty of cookbooks on the shelf, both diabetes friendly and not so diabetes friendly, and it's pretty apparent by the layer of dust, that those cookbooks don't get used that often. And the chances of your book being used at a greater frequency are somewhere between slim and none. So, why waste the money producing your information packet and mailing it to me? I'm just going to throw it away.
I guess the real question is: Why should I buy your cookbook when there are so many FREE recipe sites on the internet? Nearly every diabetes related website that I visit on a regular basis has a recipe section. dLife certainly does. It's easy to use, and full of diabetes friendly recipes.
Please don't misconstrue that as me just being a cheapskate and wanting everything for free. That's not it at all. I'll gladly pay for something if I know I'll USE it all the time, but as a guy who works crazy hours and who's always on the go, I'm not home long enough to spend much time in the kitchen. So spending money on a cookbook that won't get used much doesn't make much sense.
So, thanks, but no thanks!
Mike, You're right it's tough to just not be tempted by some of the pics and the recipes. What I do, is send the card with my name on it back, and write a note that says, I do not want your cookbooks or junk mail anymore. If I receive anymore mail from you, I will report it to the PO. There is a list like the "no call" list for your phone, at the PO where they pass along that information and you can sign up for that. Realize of course that it will take awhile to get off their list, cause they are sold to every outfit that sends mail....otherwise, toss it immediately in the garbage when it arrives, don't even open it. we finally put a garbage pail by the mailbox and toss all junk mail. Good luck.
You know, if you're feeling a bit feisty when you recieve offers for cookbooks you don't want, you could always write the word "refused" on the unopened mail and stick it back in the mailbox to be returned to the sender... it's easier to do that than to write a nice letter asking to be removed from their mailing list. :-)
Dantony