yes blocking the address is really useless, but setting up word filters for your spam filters will help. I do not use Yahoo so someone else will have to help you with how to do that there. also be sure that when you get these emails you do not simply delete them instead send them to your spam or junk mail folder so that your email client can learn from your actions what you consider spam. and never unsubscribe from any of them, just send them unopened to the spam/junk file.

Wait until unwanted gift amasses some dust. Then pick it up, break it, and I mean really smash that little bugger to smithereens! Just think, how long has it sat in your home, every day with you having to look at it with anguish over its ugliness? ......explain that unfortunately you broke it when you went to clean it. LOL! This reminds me of a story. We got a Capo di Monte vase for a wedding-shower present. From a woman who, I think, was not even invited, or at the very least did not come. (My in-laws' family's idea of a "small" shower is 75 people;) It was brown, and ugly. Really, really ugly. I said, "Oh, how nice!" when I opened it. (according to the video, I said "oh, how nice" thousands of times, but usually I meant it) My MIL tried to take it back to the store whose label was on the box. He said, it's from three years ago, I can't take it back. (It had been regifted--fine w/ me; my only complaint was, it was so ugly!) My DH-to-be loaded it in the van w/ the rest of the presents, putting it in last, and leaning it against the hatchback, and leaving the top untaped, and opened the door REALLY FAST! He could not get it to fall out and break. We were telling a friend, a real iconoclast, and he said: "Take it out back and smash it with a hammer." I got that guilty bubble of laughter. Bcs that's what I really wanted to do. That became a sort of watchword for me--a reminder that really the issue is, who's in CHARGE? Me. Not the stuff. And I can smash it with a hammer. We gave it away as a gag gift to a couple who was getting married a bit later in life, merging two complete households, plus his recently deceased mother's stuff. We explained in the accompanying card that, a marriage isn't really legit unless you get two of something, or an ugly present, and we feared that their friends were all too sensible (giving them cash) or had too good of taste (giving them beautiful things). We didn't want them to be challenged on a technicality, so here was something ugly (plus a check). They thought it was a HOOT! And they passed it on, signing their names to our original card, to someone who thought it was a hoot, and did the same. The third couple, I think, thought it was beautiful. Fine! But I have always loved that "Take it out back and smash it with a hammer."

If you have any landscape cacti that no longer 'work' in your landscape, for whatever reason, don't kill them. Contact the Tucson Cactus & Succulent Society and/or the Central Arizona Cactus & Succulent Society- depending on where you live. Their respective websites are (sorry, can't put the www at the beginning) tucsoncactus.org/ and centralarizonacactus.org/index.htm Call or email them with your problem and they may be able to provide some help. If you would like to volunteer- help is always appreciated. When a new development is planned, they try to persuade the developers to allow volunteers to go in ahead of the bulldozers and rescue some of the plants that would be destroyed. Permit tags are purchased from the state and the rescued plants are sold for little more than the cost of the tag. Sometimes there isn't much notice or time before the bulldozers arrive so volunteers are always appreciated. The volunteers of course get first choice of the rescued plants. More importantly, if you have any contacts in development or landscape or know of some acres about to go under the blade, let your C&S society know! Or volunteer to save some of these natives. In Phoenix email Thanks to AZTransplant and Hawaiisam for this great info!

Just don't expect it or any other email system to effectively block all spam.