I recently read about Catalog Choice, a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox, in Real Simple magazine and decided to give it a try. We'd just received a large stack of unsolicited catalogs that went straight to the recycling bin and I was relieved to know there might be a way to make them stop coming. At first I figured there was a catch, but there isn't! They keep all of your information private and make it very easy to unsubscribe to catalogs you never wanted in the first place. It really does help to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources. The project is a sponsored project of the Ecology Center and is endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Someone just told me about another service, Green Dimes, that does the same thing. Only their big sell is that they will plant 10 trees when you sign up for an account, which costs $10. In addition to catalogs, they claim to reduce "credit card offers, insurance offers, sweepstakes offers, coupon mailers, charitable solicitations and retail catalogs that your household receives." It sounds like a good site, particularly since they plant trees with the money from your sign-up fee.
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