Last August I wrote about the gazillion items in my mailbox and how I decided to work on it:
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.
Surpisingly enough, I got in the mood and tossed and organized them. Now I try to keep the number down to ten or less and it’s been working for the past ten months. Maybe this is a habit that might stick?
Miracles do happen.
June 9, 2021
The problem here is that I have too many photos. I need to remember to delete what isn’t needed as I use them instead of going back later to delete the extra ones. Either that or start paying more storage fees:)
I store our photos on the computer and/or on external hard drives. We have gazillions and they’re semi-organized. That has taken a LOT of time, but occasionally it’s worth it. I sympathize!
“ten or less”
WOW. I’m impressed.
mine is 550. but it’s not just social. I tend to use it as a major file folder.
not just for fun stuff but pertinent info from different offices (the apt complex)
the doctor… stuff like that. it makes me more comfortable in light of my bad memory! 🙂
I save a lot of emails, but I put them in folders for organization and get them out of my inbox.
I stopped doing emails years ago. Only keep those from family. The rest are deleted weekly. Most I mark as spam and they are automatically deleted. Doing this, eventually less & less in the inbox.
I get a lot of information through email so I skim through them to see what’s going on in the world, for blog ideas, etc. I’m getting a lot better about sorting, storing and discarding.
Wow, I don’t keep hardly any emails and I delete most of the new ones every day as I read them.
That simplifies things a lot! 🙂
Unfortunately, I’ve become too dependent on ‘when the mood strikes.’
Yet, I’ve discovered certain music is a great vehicle to jump-start a project.
I have a “possibility list”. If the project is important it eventually gets done. 🙂
It would sure be a miracle if I could do this! Mine needs cleaned out badly, but whenever I try, there is always a good reason to keep each one.
I save a lot, but at least they’re in organized folders and out of my inbox nagging at me.
I have a habit of saving too many emails also. Later when I look back at them I often wonder what I had saved them for.
I put them in appropriate folders, even trivial ones. They’re easy enough to delete later when it’s clear I don’t need them and it’s easier to decide.
i am sitting here in shock at all of you that save emails, looks like about 95 percent save them.
I read, answer and delete, and have my trash bin set on delete autmatically after one week. if i read one that has info i might want, like a link, or an idea, I copy paste the info into a folder marked email keepers.
the only ones i put in folders in email are business related, as in may need them. most of the time for ideas i just jot it down on the tablet by the computer. imporant links i pop into the Keep feature in gmail. i keep forgetting to delete sent emails, i need to figure out how to auto delete that. if we get to many emails it counts in our storage at google
I don’t think AOL has a limit, which is why I can be so prolifigate. If they start objecting I will start tossing more.
my problem is photos – now working on deleting those that don’t apply/need…liberating. I did recently do over the inbox/folders but maybe need to do that again, more regularly
I just go through mine from time to time and cull some. They don’t take up much space so there’s no hurry.