Another Village Phone Book
 

Received a monster Phone Book today. Probably 50,000 of these distributed. A mile high stack to feed the recycling furnaces. We seldom use a phone book anymore.

Two phone books to the curb this morning...last years and the new monster book.
The larger size format to avoid thickness is ridiculous.
We have not opened a phone book in who knows how many years.
There should be an opt out option that would save a lot of paper and the source of it.

Just started reading.
On page 8.
Looking forward to finishing.

Ha!!

the book landed on our driveway just before the trash was picked up today...convenient

Don't read any further cuz the butler did it.
:read: :thumbup:

BTW, about phone books.

My wife doesn't go on the internet, so she brought our old phone book down here from Wisconsin,
5 years ago and looks up addresses all the time to send out cards up north.

But do you do it like the Grinch (Jim Carey version) read the name out loud and scream LOATH HIM.....:)

Something to look forward to when I get to the house tonight. Wasn’t sure what I would do for 10 days but now I am set.

Its all been said before. Here is a thread for the newbies to read from last year.


https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ght=phone+book

Car went past at speed with the sliding rear door open and a kneeling woman throwing them out to the opposite side of the road

Hopefully she was checking for walkers etc. but I doubt it

It will come in handy for the next toilet paper shortage. See

Suprise, suprise......I received a second copy this afternoon.
15 years first time I got a second copy...............

No surprise..................that's how some neighbors get rid of their book.


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So that's where you live!:icon_wink:

Maybe 20 years ago, at least we got coupons in the phone book.

Free doorstops for all Villages homeowners, Merry Christmas.

Back in the day on the farm the Sears catalog and old phone books were valuable commodities. They provided reading entertainment and served a useful purpose afterwards.

Am I the only one who likes these old phone books?

I actually looked up my phone number and my neighbor’s to see if we are listed. The books are a bit of history too. I keep them, my family has been here since the 1990’s. I like to look them up in the old phone books, my relatives have passed, they are only a memory. Now it is my current family. Yes, I have internet, my background once was in computers. But there is a dignity to these books, a tie with tradition, which I like. And I use them to look up people and business too as they are conveniently placed on my kitchen counter.

Perhaps we should drop off unwanted Monster phone books at the mail centers for those that want an extra copy to keep in the car or golf cart. Never can tell when you get to the next phone booth whether it will have a phone book for you to use. (or next rest room)

You inspired me. The new book is 1 7/16 inches thick. I'll accept your 50,000 guess. That makes the stack 71,875 inches high. That is 5990 feet or 1.13 miles. That was an excellent guess.

How many poor trees had to die ! ( wringing hands) How will climate change be affected? We are doomed we’ll never make it.

the new phone book’s here the new phone book’s here

it'sjust part of the Stepford experience.

We like the huge phone book. It's useful and easy to navigate. It shows people who come here from each state. Xontacts ...connections. Stop complaining and go take a bike ride. Bring the phone book for you to sit on in the restaurant.

I use it to prop up one of the uneven legs of my kitchen table.

Stupid waste of paper. Post it on line.

Interesting. I got a phone book delivered about a month ago that is only 1 1/4 inches thick. It is entitled, "The Villages, Florida Phone Directory" by Data Publishing. Did I get a different book?

Those phone books give jobs to many people. Those who produce the paper, the advertisers, the delivery people, etc.

I can’t believe it’s not butter
 

Butter got a bad rap 30 years ago, he served some time but turns out he was good after all.

LOL. That they did.

Remember how the yellow index pages in the middle of the book were always the first ones gone when that "useful purpose" was being served?

The phone book I got this time is the official Villages phone book. It has The Villages logo on it. It is not one of those copycat phone books like the data publishing phone book. There is some really good and valuable information in the first 33 pages of the phone book and it's worth a look. The rest of it is just a phone book.

I've kept my very first Villages phone book. Wow, things sure have changed since I first got here.

The “butter” did it ??

I thought it was the jam !!

:)

I would use the phone book IF .... it arrived clean, we could pickup a CLEAN copy at the offices or rec ctr OR it was a digital version easily accessible. I have no interest in bringing in a dirty, wet, coated in whatever was on the driveway that morning version

You can pick up a clean copy at one of the Daily Sun offices, Spanish Springs or Brownwood.

Sadly they don’t recycle anymore. That means it goes to the trash dump. I agree, who uses phone books anymore anyway.

Glad to have it. Not so happy to see yet another complaining post

Agree
 

We agree.
These books are a waist of our amenity fees.
Ninety-five percent
of the residents either go online to find people or business or go by word of mouth.
Granted, probably 50% of the production cost is covered by the advertising, but we're paying for the rest.

Do you have any evidence that amenity fees are used to pay for the phone books? I would suspect that the phone book is a profitable endeavor, financed totally by advertisers. Otherwise, why would another company, Data Publishing, also provide a free phone book to Village residents?