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I signed up for the neatest service last month. It’s called GreenDimes (www.greendimes.com) and I’m loving it.

You see, I purchased two or three items from catalogs last year, and in doing so I ended up on about half a billion direct mail and catalog lists. During the holidays, my PO Box became so ridiculously stuffed with catalogs, I found myself regularly using both hands to tug and pull all my mail out.

I received catalogs for wines, catalogs for slippers, catalogs for Pottery Barn, catalogs for gift baskets, catalogs for office supplies, more catalogs for Pottery Barn, etc. I didn’t want any of them.

And then … I found GreenDimes! GreenDimes takes care of reducing your junk mail and unsubscribing you from various catalog lists. For $36/year (or $360 for a forever membership), GreenDimes will take your name off major direct mail lists, keep you from ending back on those lists, reduce unsolicited credit card and insurance offers, reduce your risk of identity theft, unsubscribe you from all your unwanted catalogs, and then they’ll go ahead and plant 12 trees for you. Sweet.

While you enjoy the wonders of receiving low-to-no junk mail, GreenDimes saves thousands of gallons of water, saves and plants thousands of trees, and stops thousands of pounds of junk mail each month. Everyone wins (except the catalog companies - but I have a hunch they’ll be all right.)