I save way too many email messages. I’m not nearly ruthless enough in deleting them, but I’ve been working on it. The one quote that consoles me is Ashleigh Brilliant’s,
I feel so much better now that I have given up hope.
I’ll continue to try to delete more than the number that come in every day, but if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. Instead of asking myself,
How can I get this done and enjoy the process?
I’ll simply ask,
How can I enjoy the process?
It’s better than nothing.
August 8, 2020
well… as a silver lining to your situation…
you will probably never ‘accidentally’ get rid of something!
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I check mine morning and night. Usually only have a dozen in the morning, mostly spam and 4-5 at night it’s mostly real emails.
I subscribe to a lot of newsletters, and I correspond with many people.
I have a good go every now and then, especially when I appear to miss a blog post and find gmail has decided to put in Promotion or Social box…then that when I see dozens have entered into that game spot as well. I used to do it Sunday night but now, I often don’t even know it’s Sunday!
Same thing with my Pictures…but not so much now with word documents…I think I’m with Ashleigh Brilliant!
I’m with you about not knowing what day of the week it is! 😀
Oh, at last, it sounds as if I may have met a kindred spirit with email! I would be embarrassed to say how many I have. But it is A LOT. Sometimes I will take two or three nights and concentrate and try to get rid of things. Or if they have a pic I want, try to download before I get rid of it.
I know people that get rid of it soon as it comes in…and I do if it is sales. I might check it out…depends on if I need something, etc. And I get rid of news, etc…but the personal email is stuff I have a hard time getting rid of.
I’m guessing I’m a lot worse than you are, but it’s nice to have some company. 😀 I get so excited when I get it down to a few, but then other things come up and the total goes through the roof again.
Guilty as charged here too:) I try to move mail I want to save or look at again to folders, but the inbox just keeps growing. Sometime I just get so frustrated with it that I just delete, delete, delete:)
That’s probably the best thing to do, not waste too much time on it. 🙂
I have a complete purge maybe once a week. Feels so good!
You are much more disciplined about it than I am, good for you. 🙂 It does feel good when it’s clean.
I read all the comments and now I’m trying to decide why anybody would keep all those emails because I am one of the few that when it comes in I read it I answer it I delete it and the only thing I say is if it’s my auto insurance or any of my bills that come in email and I put a yellow star on them and leave them and because I delete everything sometimes I delete like this morning I had deleted the house insurance and had to go find it in the trash and put it back. I also have my delete trash thing set to Auto delete after 30 days the older every 30 days at Auto too late but I still have to empty at sometimes. I’d like to see some comments of why people keep email. Maybe that could be your next post Jean I’d really like to know
I subscribe to a lot of digital papers, magazines, newsletters, etc. There’s a wealth of information in them and it takes time to decide what to read and think about and what to discard.
I don”t give out my email unless it’s family or a place like amazon. Hence, no great #s of email.
I subscribe to a lot of digital papers, magazines, newsletters, etc. There’s a wealth of information in them, and it takes time to process them… or to pass for now.
“I feel so much better now that I’ve given up hope.”
So true! I think the same could be said for expectations too. Once you give them up, you’re not so sad.
Have a wonderful day, Jean. xoxo
Yes,
Happily, I get very few e-mails. Do not correspond thus. Unsubscribe to any “crap” that come in. Etc. So I maintain clean out.
See, I am “addicted” to neat. And a full-of-unread-e-mails is not neat, to me. ~grin~
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That’s clearly a good strategy for you. 🙂
I’m ruthless with emails. I keep them for a few days, then I either transfer them to a folder or delete them. I’m amazed some people say they have thousands of emails and can’t seem to get on top of them.
I’ve just about cleaned out the inbox now and will probably start shifting new messages into folders or deleting them sooner, but it’s not a big deal.
I delete most of mine as soon as I’ve read them. The keepers I put in a starred file and every once in awhile I go through it and delete more. It’s a chore.
For me making the decisions is the hardest part. I may try a new method now that the inbox is almost empty …yes, I did finish the job. On the other hand, maybe I won’t and will just wait until I get in the mood again. 🙂
I generally read an email and either respond to it or if none is called for then delete it. occasionally there is one that I want to save for some reason. It will sit there for however long and then one day I’m asking myself why did you save this.
I save a lot of personal emails in folders so I can reread them when I want. I did a lot of that the past few days.