I am waiting for an important email.
And suddenly, my email inbox is stressing me out.
I have around 9,000 unread emails. Yes, 9,000. Mostly spam, newsletters and subscriptions I no longer care about. I’ve lived with this mess for years and somehow it never bothered me much.
Until now.
When you’re waiting for one important email, you want to see that little 1 unread message. Instead, I see 9K. It could mean one new email. It could mean twenty. Who knows?
And now I can suddenly see the mess.
Going through just the emails I’ve received today already takes time. Then there are yesterday’s. And all the old subscriptions I should probably unsubscribe from.
I honestly don’t even know where to start.
It’s funny how a mess can stay invisible until you suddenly need something from it.
All I want right now is to be able to look at my inbox and know: the email I’m waiting for is there.
Maybe it’s finally time to do something about those 9,000 emails.
Ilze
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Wow Ilze, I suggest you check your email twice a day going forward. 😂 I have two address, one for the real stuff and the other for that which will be spam rubbish. I hope that you get your important email. ☺️
I have at least 4 addresses and each inbox is like this! Somehow that didn’t save me from my real stuff being mixed with rubbish!
Oh, my goodness!!! I hope you can get it taken care of so you won’t be stressed by it. I hope you find the email that you are waiting for very soon. Hugs
Thank you, I’m still waiting!
I can so relate. I tried using the “rules” capability to move those that were related to something I should read, but not now, to separate folders, but then just never read them anyway. Finally I instigated a major project of unsubscribing, and if that didn’t work, blocking senders.
I need to do that major project! I’m still waiting for my email…
I suggest sorting your email by sender and you will easily see those businesses you no longer patronize … just bulk delete them. That will easily remove around 2/3 of the junk you have saved up but then find some other heuristics that you can live with … maybe delete anything older than 3 months that you haven’t read. I think you can quickly get the number into the hundreds, but that’s still a lot of mail to read. Best of luck.
There are bills and orders that i need, so I can’t delete “older than 3 month”. I’m thinking about checking out the option to go through it all and “unsubscribe” -> “delete”
Start at the very beginning . . . at the start of every day count and decide what to do with 50 old mails before you begin with the current days – then put tick on the calendar and do the next 50 tomorrow > well, that is my method and it works! I get about 350-400 mails per day, all mixed, and take the day’s in order of arrival . . .
It’s a good suggestion 🙂 Thank you.
How complicated our lives have become with something that was supposed to uncomplicate it! At least that was my thought. Shooting a quick email to get an answer instead of calling and going through all the pleasantries, hi, how are you, the kids yadda yadda yadda, or wanting to know when the newest sale comes to save 20% or whatever. I’m pretty good about using the delete button with messages, what I am not really good at is keeping up with the all the online classes I sign up. I started 2 years ago to try and get through them all, before signing up for anymore, and yet life happens and I feel I am behind again. I am the only one making me feel this way. I cannot fathom 9000 emails, but I can imagine going through 2 filing cabinents of paperwork my mom kept, every single piece of paper she ever touched, plus 10 copies of each. Why does it have to be so complicated to live? Blessings.