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You can buy single pre-stamped envelopes at the post office. The mark up is only a couple cents so if you're not doing hundreds of mailings it's worthwhile to just buy what you need. I just finished reading KonMari. I move a lot for work and wanted some inspiration for cutting down the cruft that I've been hauling around over the last decade. The minimalist idea runs very contrary to how I was raised in a rural community on the plains. The attitude was that you needed to always be prepared. Which meant keeping spares and extras for anything that you might need. Stockpile food, because a blizzard could delay the trucks and the grocery shelves run bare. Keep a water buffalo or at least several 10 gallon drums of potable water stored in the house because the pump on the well might go out or the well might go dry. Always be prepared for having to go without electricity. Keep several gallons of extra gasoline handy. Keep spares for tools or anything that might break down because you don't want to end up driving 100+ miles to the city to get a replacement (Amazon Prime though has done me a world of service).