Save a Tree. And Start Smiling.

There’s nothing quite like opening up your mail box, seeing a load of envelopes, and feeling loved.

(Only to realize it is entirely junk mail, and in actuality, no one loves you after all. Loser.)

Spam email is automatically filtered in most of our email systems, but snail mail has yet to reach that level of ease. Still, there just may be a way to halt your junk mail without blowing up your mail box or moving under a rock with an assumed name. (They’d likely find you anyway.)

GreenDimes is a cool new company that maintains a database of the companies that send a majority of junk mail. If you pay them a yearly fee (which works out to about a dime a day), they will contact the worst junk-mail-offending senders and harass them until they stop harassing you. You help save trees, and slow down that gray hair growth. Plus, the company will donate a portion of your fee to planting new trees, to sort of replenish what your junk mail has taken away.

That’s all rad. But, even better, maybe the mail you receive will start actually being about you. And you can stop being sad.