blank pages in books

I really don't understand that at all....its really just a waste of paper. I was at chapters today with my grandparents and my dad as i am often (we'll get to that later) and I was looking through some books and they all have like 5 blank pages at the end. What do they want you to do? Write some more of the book for them? Get some autographs? I really don't get it, it's killing trees people! End rant. So now back to my grandparents. Every time I ever got a report card since I was in elementary school, as far back as I can remember, my grandpa has taken me to chapters. It's his way of encouraging good grades and since I love reading, it always worked. Well I would probably get good grades even if he didn't take me to chapters but it's a fun tradition that I look forward to when my grandparents come down from Deep River. If you don't know where that is, google it, not many people have ever heard of Deep River since it is a very very small town up north. It's about seven hours away from where I live. It's where my dad and his siblings grew up, and every Christmas me and my family would go up there. Just down the street from my grandparents backyard is this awesome little park with what I used to think was a massive tabogganing hill, but now it really doesn't seem that big anymore. We don't go up north for Christmas anymore though, since my aunt and her family could never come. So we switched up the tradition a little and now every year we go to her house in London (Ontario, not England, although I wish it was in England). Anyways, I am super excited for Christmas (one month today!!!) and tomorrow my mom is going to be fighting the crowds of black friday in the states. She always gets amazing deals there, wayyy cheaper than shopping in Canada....now if only I could think of what to get her for Christmas....
Check back later, next post I'll give you the lowdown on me.