clean out my email inboxes

I have lost my daily vigor for this, but still work at it a few times per week. Will I ever catch up with the intake of junk? Anywho, I’m at 2308 messages- more than before :/.

Hotmail is down to 2273. I’m working on it a little each day.

wow. Hard to believe hotmail was clean 1.5 yrs ago. I wonder how it became so congested again. Neglect. Well, I’m thinking about cleaning it again. It’s at 2510 messages.

My mega hotmail account is now clean. The inbox has 3 pages of messages (Nov, Dec, things I’m intentionally keeping) and I even cleaned out most of the folders. Now I’m working on yahoo. It has 1143 messages; I’m not sure what it had when I first began the cleaning. One thing annoying about yahoo is that it doesn’t have page tabs so I can’t log in and instantly go to page 7 to work (for example). I have to click next until I reach the page I’m seeking.

Lately, I’ve been working on my mega hotmail account. I’m making progress. I’ve deleted old mail from July-October 2007. I’m down to 97 total messages, 13 new as of now. I think it’d be wise for me to go through the previous month; maybe that will keep my numbers down (e.g., in December, go through and delete all Nov. entries). No, make that two months back. Nov. 25 is too soon for a Dec. 5 clean out. Sometimes, I intentionally hold on to things for a few weeks. The problem is, I don’t go back to delete them. I’m down to 4 pages of messages from something like 17. Progress.

I am failing miserably at this. I was doing okay until I started working. Now, I let things pile up. I simply don’t have the time to read everything that people forward to me and don’t have the heart to delete relatively new, unread things. I felt bad this week because my aunt asked me if I’d read a couple of real e-mails she had sent. Nope. I hadn’t noticed that they were real. One was even about someone she knows dying and asking us family people to help with the funeral arrangements! Maybe I should start deleting things on a weekly basis; I don’t know. Besides that, I haven’t had the time to delete the really old, unread messages that are still in my inbox. The 1 account that I cleaned out (twice) is still decent.

The second account that I cleaned is up to 60-something unread messages. I’ll work on it next week, if not this weekend. My point, really, is that I failed at keeping it clean so I didn’t have to go back and weed through it. BUT, it’s only 60, not 100, 150, 300, etc. Much better than before! My thought is that I should make it a priority to clean out an inbox once it has 5 pages of messages. That way, they’ll never get out of control like before.

Two more inboxes have been cleaned. Next, there’s yahoo! I have about 700 messages there, I think. That’ll take a few months at the rate I’ve been working—about 85 messages a week + reading new messages. Normal people just delete their forwards if they don’t want to read them. That makes me feel bad (I’m prone to eventually reading them). Plus, some of that stuff is just darn funny!

I cleaned out my school account and have kept it clean for a week now. I’m working on a 3rd account.

Big whoop! I emptied my g-mail account because I wasn’t all that impressed and didn’t use it much. I relocated important messages to other locations. I e-mailed a lot of people to see if they want an invite before I shut the account down, but I feel the freedom even now. Activity recommended? Heck yeah!