Does anyone ever look at them?
Straight into my bin they go.

I actively shake a paper downwards into the bin to get them out first.
Another irritating thing is, why is the most interesting article allways on a page which is a single page not attached to anything which falls on the floor whilst you read it?
I was reading the conspiracy theories on the death of Bob Woolmer (you read them here first), when the page blew away.
Grrrr.

My shredder has to have it's breakfast !

Straight into my bin too. Highly irritating, I find.

One would imagine research would have been carried out to show that this is a cost effective form of advertising, but I can't see it myself.

I rarely ever buy newspapers but magazines get cluttered up with these useless leaflets so when I am about to buy one, I shake them out into the display rack.

They simply must be thrust at us as a tax loss, if you don`t use up your advertisng budget you pay it over in tax anyway.
I have only used national paper advertising twice and I bought up printed space and not leaflet space.
The sales? They plummeted, and we daftly offered a "money back if not satisfied " clause on one advert which was in the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Mirror.

You can`t teach experience, you can only learn from your own.

Ah yes but Elliot, they have this new cunning plan of wrapping it all in cellophane so we don`t know whats in there!
One rip of the wrapper and out comes the DVD we don`t want, the re-recorded pile of old hits on CD, inferior to the originals, we don`t want and 10,000+ offers for bedding plants which we won`t buy as "plugs".
Don`t even start me on Hawkshead outdoor clothing for him and her.
And, whilst on the outdoor aspect, if we bought all the garden furniture thrust at us, we would all live in an enviroment that resembled Steptoe and Sons backyard!

Tesco's had a bin specially for the leaflets, next to the display rack. It has to be emptied several times a day.