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Phonebooks are archaic. The companies that print them basically are robbing their advertisers by inflating their circulation numbers when probably 90% of the books circulated get sent right to the recycling pile. While some companies like DEX do let you opt out of receiving them, they force you to give them a ton of information to do so. If you want a print phonebook you should have to request it, not the other way around (if you don't want one you have to opt out).
I haven't opened a phonebook in probably a decade, and I imagine that many younger people have never opened one in their lives.
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2 easy options
- The Market Based Solution: Time your daughters showers and charge her $1 for every minute past 5 that the shower is running, $2 for every minute after 10, $3 for every minute after 20. A 10 minute shower would cost $5, 20 minutes would cost $25, 30 minute shower would cost her $55.
- Rationing: Turn off the water valve for water flowing out of the hot water heater. Do this after her 5 minutes is up. I would suspect that if her hot shower turns cold without warning a few times she may get the picture. It may work best to not do it every time, but rather be erratic and unpredictable.
- The Market Based Solution: Time your daughters showers and charge her $1 for every minute past 5 that the shower is running, $2 for every minute after 10, $3 for every minute after 20. A 10 minute shower would cost $5, 20 minutes would cost $25, 30 minute shower would cost her $55.