I hate checking my emails. Though I rarely have to physically check my emails. I have my phone and tablet set up to "ding" every time I receive an email. The trouble is, I receive a zillion emails that I don't even read before I delete. These include emails from shops I like, though never buy from because of their prices. Emails from shops I do buy from, but because of my trying to quit my consumer addiction, I want to remove the temptation to see all of their beautiful things. These also include blogs I used to, but no longer read, sporting teams I never get time to see, and organisations that I have no recollection of signing up for emails.
I reckon it's pretty safe to say that I receive around 20-30 emails per day, to my personal email account. That may not seem like a lot, but I really don't have time to be deleting 90% of these emails each day.
So I did a clean sweep through my emails.
It took me about 10 minutes, and all I did was go through the emails, and unsubscribed from the ones that no longer interest me (or that interest me and my purse a little too much) and then delete all the emails from my inbox. I think I unsubscribed from around 20 newsletters/emails. I have folders within my inbox to store emails I need to keep, such as any correspondence from my work, anything to do with the house my fiancee and I are currently building, and anything from my school (my photo imaging diploma).
This has virtually completely emptied my inbox, apart from a few customer service surveys that I need to complete. Knowing that I'm not going to receive this amount of emails again is a huge relief. I will probably need to do this in another week to 2 weeks time, just to unsubscribe and clear out any emails that weren't in the inbox at the time of this clean sweep. This was much quicker and painless than I was expecting and I can't recommend doing it enough.
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