Up a Creek in Lower Slower Delaware

I always have too many books and magazines on my end table.  I get ideas and go digging for stuff to help me decide and I have even more on my table.  I try to clean it off once a month, but it’s more apt to be two or three.  I was very surprised at the number of catalogues that I had every intension of looking through and never did.  Why do I get them?  Some, like Patternworks, I haven’t bought from for ten years.  Most I also get e-mails from.  It makes me crazy.