Reduce Advertising Exposure<p>This is key.<p>Don't pay for cable TV, don't watch network TV. If you must watch TV, watch Ad-free programming, or get rid of your TV.<p>Write the Direct Marketing Association and get you (And your spouse) off mailing lists.<p>Add your phone numbers to the do not call list.<p>Be careful who you share your name, phone number and address with, and if need be, change your middle initial so you can track bad players.<p>Call companies which hound you with constant offers to upgrade and tell them to stop as you view it as harrasment
and will take your business elsewhere if it continues.<p>If everyone did this, America may go into a depression for a while as the economy reconfigures itself, but the outcome
for every citizen would be much, much better.