Remember back when catalogs were innocent fun, something to flip through and toss?

You'd think the advent of online shopping would have eliminated this expensive, environmentally wasteful practice, but oh, no. There are more catalogs than ever -- there are even catalogs that showcase the best of other catalogs!

The holidays bring out the catalog marketers with a force and volume that is terrible to behold. I used to receive daily missives from Pottery Barn and J. Crew, and the folks at Solutions were frighteningly determined to sell me a gum drop tree.


But wait, you're saying, she wrote that in past tense. How does one escape from the torrent of catalogs? The magic of Green Dimes.

Green Dimes is a service that gets you off those junk mail lists forever. It's free to sign up for the basic version, which provides you with a one stop site that has all of the tools to get your name off every one of those lists.

With the premium version, which costs just $20, they do the opt out notifications for you, plus plant five trees, plus you get access to 24/7 customer service. Catalogs be gone!

But what if you love perusing cooking porn and psychedelic paisley fleece dog hoodies? Obviously that's why the internet was invented.

So be kind to the environment, and your mail carrier (those suckers are heavy!) Sign up for Green Dimes and stop the catalog madness.