You’ve Got Mail
Woman in the Middle | August 9, 2017When my email inbox ballooned to over 9000 emails, I knew something had to be done. That epiphany coincided with a need to hunt out several old emails for various reasons. I resorted the emails by who they were from and as I started hunting I also started deleting. It is amazing how two years worth ignored of emails from places like Shutterfly and Staples can just build up in your inbox!
After several sessions of hunting and deleting over the course of a couple of days I had gone from over 9000 to under 5000! Yay! Still too many, but a whole lot better, to be sure. You would think after getting rid of that many emails the low hanging fruit would be gone. That is definitely not the case. Just when I think it is, I come across a nice batch of 50 or 100 emails from Rite Aid or some place called Quora Digest, whatever that is! Then I begin deleting again.
Just to throw a wrench in the works, AOL (yes, I still have an AOL email address-I am old school that way) gets really cranky after you have deleted several hundred emails. It begins to refuse to let you delete large batches, or will only allow you to delete emails that you click on one email at a time. It is like it thinks you are trying to kill it and it is fighting back. Sigh.
My latest number is 4517. That is up two emails from when I first started to type those five words. This email thing sometimes feels like a losing battle!!!
Bloody hell that is a lot of emails
I guess I have signed up for too many companies!
I have hotmail, & I have all those are go to junk mail. I try to check it at least every other day. Some of those stores send 3 or more emails a day. Then I click empty folder. Can’t believe you had 9,000!
Ignore them long enough and they build up!
If you go to the bottom of an email, the word “unsubscribe” is in small letters. Click on it and you’ll be taken to another page to confirm you want to unsubscribe. If you do that with enough companies who have you on their email lists, I’m sure your emails will subside.
Good idea. I need to do that with the companies I don’t care about.