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Post by goldenthreads on Jan 6, 2024 13:58:51 GMT -5
Just for the record so I can compare later:
total emails: 15,845 unread emails: 9153
Well, gosh--that should be motivating. Back later.
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Post by desposito on Jan 6, 2024 18:20:08 GMT -5
I'm so glad to see that other people have thousands of emails too, I'm not the only procrastinator in deleting them! But with the help of this challenge, we will conquer them!
Diane
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Post by mylittlescholar on Jan 8, 2024 16:52:26 GMT -5
a few digital glitches are now spilling affecting my finances, so I guess its time to resolve them!
I try to get everything automatically paid, and something messed up with my auto/rental insurance, so that is urgent. I also haven't been able to get my venmo account to work. I also need to order another debit card. the replacement never showed up. (I found my old one, however! )
emails deleted: 498 remaining: 10,094
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Post by desposito on Jan 8, 2024 19:37:42 GMT -5
I have been successful in that each morning my total emails is lower than the day before.
I did some reading in my Word book and figured out how to stop Word from auto-saving documents every time I made a key stroke. Some documents were being auto saved and others weren't, and it was driving me crazy. I've used Word for many years and have developed the habit of always saving when I need to so I don't need the auto-save feature.
That's about all I've done for this challenge this week.
Edited to add: I forgot I also wanted to list my oldest email each week, right now it's from 6/15/20. I would like to make a point of getting rid of the oldest ones even though they are some of the hardest.
Diane
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Post by goldenthreads on Jan 8, 2024 21:04:20 GMT -5
I guess I'll just pay attention to total emails and not worry about the unread ones. I don't hope to clear everything out, because some are sentimental and others I want to retain for financial reasons.
I just unsubscribed from three political organizations and two commercial companies. I also deleted a bunch of emails.
Current email count: 15,715
Did some more deletions. New count is 15,611.
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Post by goldenthreads on Jan 9, 2024 13:55:17 GMT -5
Unsubscribed from two more companies. I also deleted hundreds of emails. This is a slog and a finger-in-the-dike situation! 15,456 is the new count.
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Post by mylittlescholar on Jan 9, 2024 16:24:06 GMT -5
I see y'all!
today I did not have the spoons to make decisions, so just went down the latest in my inbox and deleted one at a time (I usually do a search for the sender as I delete). think today's count was 158. so many emails are just notifications! hopefully I can adjust settings.
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Post by goldenthreads on Jan 10, 2024 22:55:18 GMT -5
Deleted some more emails. New count: 15,315.
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Post by goldenthreads on Jan 11, 2024 22:28:20 GMT -5
More deletions. New count = 15,233.
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Post by goldenthreads on Jan 13, 2024 0:23:35 GMT -5
New count = 15,029.
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Post by DustyD on Jan 13, 2024 13:43:56 GMT -5
I updated a couple of passwords the other day.
Today I spent a long time doing an overhaul of my Reddit account--unsaving some unneeded saved posts and comments, leaving some subreddits I'd been following, and deleting a bunch of old posts and comments I'd made. (What a walk down memory lane!)
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Post by mylittlescholar on Jan 13, 2024 15:15:31 GMT -5
oh I need to add a Reddit review to my list, DustyD
I did a scroll back through October and deleted 435 emails. It was slow and messy but progress, not perfection!
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Post by desposito on Jan 15, 2024 18:19:39 GMT -5
The only thing I've done for this challenge this week is emails, and I am happy that I start each day with fewer than the day before--but this week it was only a few fewer than the day before--that means I'm barely keeping up with what's coming in. I will have to make a plan instead of just randomly deleting. I do still have easy emails from 2021 and probably 2022, and when I look at the hard ones there are really hard ones--book related--and moderately hard ones that won't take as long to do something with. So maybe I will target the moderately hard ones to get a bigger number out this coming week.
My oldest email this week is from 10/5/20, which is 4 months later than last week.
Diane
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Post by mylittlescholar on Jan 20, 2024 19:13:56 GMT -5
I've been sliding on my initial progress the last week. but did a bit more yesterday.
129 emails deleted. a problem with online bill paying resolved the contact info for my cat sitter found (and cat sitting booked)
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Post by DustyD on Jan 20, 2024 21:45:25 GMT -5
Worked on internet bookmarks today.
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