My mother is the kind of woman who spends a relatively large amount of time calling people who send her junk mail, and talking to telemarketers and telling them, to no avail, to stop sending her mail. I've always told her that it won't work, but I guess it is stress reliever for her, to make some minimum wage telephone operator work hard for the money.

This past weekend, I was reading the NYTimes when I came across an article that highlights people who do extraordinary things to get revenge on junk mail companies and others who wrong them. One person takes all the inserts that fall out of magazines and sends them back every month, but leaving them blank, so that they have to pay postage.

Then there is the guy who finally receives a lot less junk mail. He stuffs scrap metal pieces and things in the business-reply mail envelope. Basically, he makes the envelopes weigh a ridiculous amount, so for the companies to send this guy mail, it costs them several dollars. I told my mother about him.

So I wake up this morning, and my mom has all sorts of junk stuffed into some business-reply mail envelopes.. washers, brochures, pieces of metal... (see photo): www.hijabman.com