One great thing about Panama - no junk mail. Well, no MAIL really - they don’t have a well established government regulated postal system, so if you have a PO Box, you get what you subscribe to and not much else. So, I thankfully didn’t need to recycle 100 pounds of catalogs in November and December, but now, I’m already ankle deep in junk mail (and I haven’t even been shopping yet!).

This wonderful service called Greendimes, however, will help eliminate your name and address from all the popular junk mail lists, and reduce your junk mail by, get this, up to 90%! Started in 2006, Greendimes boasts it has stopped over 3 MILLION pounds of junk mail from reaching mailboxes across the country; almost 500,000 unwanted catalogs from being thrown away or recycled; and over 680,000 trees saved from a life of junk mail.

For $20, let Greendimes do all the work, and only find happy, wanted mail in your mailbox. If you sign up, you can even choose which catalogs you want stopped being sent (hellooooo, I haven’t bought anything from that company that makes silk longjohns since I moved from New York SEVEN YEARS AGO). You get the point. Greendimes is a great concept that you can participate in for little money. Think about it as a new waistline for your mailbox! Easier than getting to the gym, for sure…