Declutter your Personal Email in 3 Steps!
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- It's hard to give tips for decluttering email that fits every person, situation and email server, BUT, I hope you find a couple ideas here for simplifying your email inbox!
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THANK YOU for watching!! It's hard to give tips for decluttering email that fits every person, situation and email server, BUT, I hope you find a couple ideas here for simplifying your email inbox!
The Minimal Mom would love to see what you’re getting the kids for Christmas this year 😉
I use this technique, but differently. I am the one who feels I may miss something important by deleting mass quantities at once, so I use the process of elimination method. I use the search bar for marketing tag words like "limited time" "one day only" "free with" "ends soon" "last chance", select THOSE mass quantities of emails, and delete! Then I go for sender names; topics and titles if emails I have intentionally signed up for to read in my leisure, but they have gotten out of control. I select all of THOSE emails, unclick the ones sent in the last month or 2 so I might can read them, then delete again. After I have cleared those selected seaches from my inbox, my inbox folder reaches a much more manageable amount of inventory, and I feel much safer in my deleting process from my main inbox, less anxious, and much more intentional about my decluttering process! -Happy Holidays! -Loren
Best tip so far, true intellectual haha
Create a separate email address that is only used for registering things or when you are at a store and they ask for your email address. You won’t ever have to check it because you know it’s all “Junk Mail”. Anyone/anything important, give your regular email address that goes to your Inbox. Saves a lot of time.
This is what I did!
What should i do to declutter if i have already many useful subscriptions in my main account? I would think maybe to change de email on each subscription? Have you ever been in that situation?
I hate to have unread emails in my mailbox. I read and clean out my inbox daily. This is one area I give myself a gold star in. To avoid too many emails I tend to always unsubscribe from businesses I don't frequent often. Also when I go to a store and they ask for my email I just politely say no thanks.
Riverside Acres what is your daily routine for staying on top of email? When do you tackle it? Home? Office? How long it take you? Do you have to manage it more than once a day? I’d like to get a handle on this too. Anything that you can share would be appreciated! Even something I haven’t thought of asking. Thank you!
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Belinda H I have all my email come to my phone. I tackle it throughout the day whenever I have a spare minute. You'd be amazed at how many emails you can go through while in the bathroom or waiting for the water to boil at dinner. Just a few here and there and you'll get it. Also unsubscribe from anything unimportant!!
I was home sick when I watched this video so it was the perfect timing to do it while lying down! I went from 38 pages of emails in my inbox down to one - and it feels great! Thanks for the encouragement Dawn 😘
I did do this- well sort of - a couple years ago! All the emails in my inbox just disappeared! I had a few moments of panic and then realized I had a perfectly good excuse if something important wasn't responded to! My husband offered to help and try to recover my emails and I said no because it was actually a huge relief not to have such a big number looking back at me. After that point I decided not to let it get built up again and while every once in a while I have to go through and do some unsubscribing I daily go in and delete everything that isn't a personal email and doesn't have a subject line that makes me really want to read it. This keeps my inbox nice and manageable. I do have a folder called "Keep for a Time" where I put emails that I need to keep temporarily. This has been really useful and I just go through it every once in a while and clean out things that are out of date!
Sometimes I just close my eyes and press delete and stop when I feel like it. .I have never once been asked for an email I deleted. LOL. Thanks for the tips.
Lmao risky behaviour!
If you're too scared to delete, simply archive the whole mess. Those archived emails will still show up in a search, so nothing is really lost, but you can still start fresh. Then make a point to get to inbox zero every week -- pick a time (mine is Sunday evening after dinner) to deal with any lingering emails and start the next day stress free.
I got you on this one , this may help me . I just watched video an I got tears from the anxiety of this . I know a guy tears because of deleting email ! It's awful I've got every email from when I set my gmail up in my 20s I'm now 42 . This is the hardest one yet .
I did this after deleting big segments! Thanks :)
GREAT idea!!!
@@TheMinimalMom alright made progress , 19,000 to 7,000 emails an purging . Now if I can get rest my life purged I'd be ok. Why was I wired like this ? Why cant i be like my friend , your mom , sister an jus be like feeeeee toss it an move on . No it's like the slow agonizing death to toss it . What if i need it ? It cost money an to replace it ? An the it's my heart your tossing out . Thus you see why i an others watch your videos . Btw i was in agony when you arranged Tom's corner I'd cried ...
@@ballenberkley oh my word! Yes, we are all wired differently! We help balance each other in this world with all our extremes! But who am I to talk! I have 23,305 emails in my box! No time!
Got here from Erica Lucas' channel. Thanks for the great tips on email decluttering! I got rid of almost six thousand emails in under an hour. What a lighter feeling!
I had 20500 emails and now I am down to 3500, I am in the year of 2017. Thanks for sharing!
I am not going to have this happen again, after I declutter them, I am going to stay on top of it. Thanks for sharing!
Kathy Bullmer wow I feel better now I have 5000 left still .
I was able to get all of my deleted!!!
I don’t feel so bad now. I have almost 11,000. Thrilled for all these tips, I know what I’m going to do first thing tomorrow! Ha!
Just a few days ago, I checked my inbox to see that I had 800+ unread emails 😱 I began searching by group so I could quickly scan and delete all of the unimportant ones. This also gave me a chance to unsubscribe to the ones clogging up my inbox. I now have less than 200 unread emails, and I plan to tackle the read emails after I finish the unread emails. Thank you for all of your ideas!!
I have 47,941 unread emails. I’m going to try your technique for mass deletion tomorrow. Thanks for the tip!!!
While I watched your video, I cleared out over 10,000 emails (dating back to 2013!!!) from my inbox. I often am "paralyzed" with anxiety and indecision when it comes to taking the necessary steps to simplify my life. I enjoy each and every one of your videos. They are giving me the courage and encouragement to take action! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
My inbox is empty for the first time EVER!! Thank you for empowering me to delete without guilt! What a relief!!
Thank you for sharing!!! I have been so overwhelmed by the thought of attempting to zero out the thousands of emails I had. Before even finishing your video I paused and got to it. I have just 384 emails left to go through between 3 email addresses, all of which have attachments of photos that need saved, sorted, or deleted. I am so grateful for the motivation I found in watching your video.
"You're all done. Nothing in inbox" The first time I've ever seen this. BEST FEELING Ever!!!
I can't even tell you how much I loved the is=unread tip! I found that I had unread emails in various boxes from 2017- ridiculous. I just read and dealt with the new messages from the last three days before I typed in the is=unread, and deleted the rest. Brilliant. Thank you.
I use the same method but instead of deleting the emails, at the end of the year I create a folder for 2019 and I move all the emails in there. This way I can still go back and search for anything from previous years but my current inbox is zero to start out the new year.
Sonya L Great idea!
Sonya L smart! I might do this
I started right after watching your video : from 6000 emails with more of 1000 unread.....to 57 and 17 unread. Huge progress ! It's amazing, it feels incredibly lighter and peaceful now. Thank you !! 👍
Thank You! I just eliminated 1000 emails in 2 minutes! Life changing!
Thank you for this reminder! I have recently been feeling overwhelmed by the growing list of unread "oh I might want to look at that" emails. It's just not that important and the information is easily replaced! My inbox (all tabs) are now EMPTY! And it only took 10 minutes! THANK YOU!
Did it! I had over 4,000 and it got to the point that I didn't even try to delete anymore because it was too overwhelming. I went through my important emails and there were 4 that I saved. 4!! It's good to see the inbox at 0 now and things all caught up!
I use my inbox like a "To Do" list. It only stays there if it's something that needs to be done. Everything else gets deleted or filed (archived) each time email is accessed. I have folders for receipts and other important information. Unsubscribe immediately from any unwanted email and delete. Add contacts immediately for addresses you want to keep, then delete the email. Once I have dealt with each email, it immediately leaves the inbox. Like checking off a to do list! Love this video. Digital clutter is just as debilitating as physical clutter. And sometimes much harder to address. Not sure why, but it is. 😊
I know this is an old video, but you have made my day! I just cleaned my inbox out of 35,000 emails! I am that person that never deletes anything. Thank you!
Being a minimalist, there are so few adversing emails I open so I use the "unsubscribe" option often. Took about a month of doing this but now my emails are very limited and usually from RUclips letting me know The Minimal Mom has a new post. Now THAT is an email I want to get! 8-)
Thank you for that video last night about digital clutter 📧 I cleaned off way more emails than needed...some read, some saved for no reason, but my email is toned down and I unsubscribed to many sites that sent way too many emails! Now to keep it under control!
My best advice is to create a “rule” for the emails that may have coupons to stores you frequent. You can do this once you’ve opened an email to a particular store. Find the three dots (near the top right) scroll down to “create rule” then select a folder to save the email to or add a new folder. I started a “Coupon” folder. Once you’ve selected the folder, click OK then check the box Run this rule now in Inbox. All the emails in your inbox from that sender will automatically go directly to that folder.
This is a great tip as well if you online shop and get the coupon type emails all the time but don’t want to delete them. Temptation is a little devil. ;)
I have a separate email specifically for that purpose. I only use that email for coupons and store mailing lists so that those types of emails are not mixed in with my regular email.
Awesome idea, I do it at work, never thought to apply it to a personal email.
Thank you so very much for that information! I will try that for sure!!!
So I went to do this, and I don't have a "rule" box to check.
I did find a "Change Label" box, so I clicked that, unclicked the "Inbox", and clicked "Promtions'. Hope that all works.
Thanks again my friend❣❣❣
I’ve been home sick the past few days & out of sheer boredom, I’ve been unsubscribing & deleting emails, so great timing with these tips!!
I had over 10,000 emails and deleted all within about 5 minutes! Thank you so much! I feel free! Now I need to tackle my kitchen!
Thank you Dawn, for this video. I feel like you just gave me permission to delete!! I felt like an important thing to check for before the mass deletion, was pictures or videos sent as attachments, so I filtered my inbox to see only emails with attachments and I only one that had an sweet/ important picture I wanted to keep! Apparently I have been keeping up on archiving and saving them (which has been a goal of mine in 2019). And that was the biggest thing that was holding me back from deleting emails anyway. Another thing was worrying about missing sales and promotions. Well, regarding that "fear" this was good timing today feel inspired by you to mass delete because my shopping for this month is definitely DONE and dont need to see any more ads and promotions right now anyway! Whew! Over 1000 pieces of digital and mental clutter just left my life.I feel newly empowered to swat away the new emails that are on thier way into my inbox as we speak. I have NEVER before had an empty inbox and its feels so good. It makes me more excited for the fun holiday festivities coming up. Btw, it would have been even more to delete, but about a year ago I set up some rules for emails from certain senders to auto delete after certain number of days. As a maintenance technique, that has saved from literally tens of thousands of email to look at and think about over the past year. Thanks again!
So efficient! I get rid of those gmail categories straight away on my accounts. Too much sitting around 🙋🏽♂️
I had over 40k emails. I went through the most recent month, saved what was important, unsubscribed from what I didn’t need to see anymore, then mass deleted the rest. It took over a day and a half for my phone to do it. Now I get a few daily that I respond to in someway (save, delete, unsubscribe). I’m so much happier and nothing has come back to haunt me.
OMG! This is the best tip ever! I just decluttered 79.000 unread emails!!!! Yes, you read that right, 79K going back to 2015. I still have about 20,000 read ones to deal with but when I saw this video I actually cried! Thank you!!!
I just cleaned out my inbox 2 days ago! My husband had been complaining for years about the big mess and the enormous pile of unread emails. I started at 14000 unread emails! I am subscribed to way to many mailings. So I started with labeling everything as ‘read’. And finding groups of emails to either label and put in a folder or delete as a group. It did make me want to run away haha, but am glad I finally fixed it.
I have recently done this, and you are so right...they do keep a-comin’ every day. I recently unsubscribed from some emails I had been enjoying for two reasons: i was getting 10-12 a day with a breezy”if you can’t read them all each day, just delete them; and they were less and less substantive, and longer and full of ads...full of ads. So, delete and unsubscribe, I did. 10-20 emails a day from EVERYONE is onerous to me.
I had over 2,500 emails in my inbox. Now I have 10. WOW! I did move quite a few into a saved folder, but at least now if I needed them, I'd know where to find them and starting with 10 emails seems like a manageable amount. 2,500 emails is not manageable. I did go through many of them, but found that once I identified certain types that I didn't need, I could delete pages at a time of things like newsletters I used to read and hadn't deleted even after unsubscribing. Thank you for your help with this! Seriously! I can't believe I did it. It helps that I'm sick and can barely move, so I needed something easy and somewhat mindless to work on. This was perfect. Thanks again!!
I go through my emails every morning and evening... it’s part of my morning and night routine. I have unsubscribed from a lot of stores that I never shop. If I shop at the stores frequently I have their app which usually has all the coupons I would use such as Joanns, Meijer, and Michaels just a few. If it’s an email I want to keep I will “starred” ...much easier to locate.
I usually don’t let my inbox get so bad! But I was almost up to 2k unread. After watching this, I not only cleared those out but also old emails that went all the way back to 2009!!!!! Redid my folders and got rid of inventory that doesn’t need archiving or that I won’t take action on. Thanks for this! It pushed me to take care of this! It was definitely needed and felt like a little self-care bc it was def affecting me.
..... I just deleted 82,000 emails. 😳😳🤯 I'm not even close to kidding. I don't know why I never thought to delete emails after I've read them. I have literally just let them pile up, both read and unread. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!!!!!!! My eyes and brain sure appreciate it! 💕💕💕💕
I have 2,540 unread emails and know there’s no way I’ll read them all. I love your suggestions on how to resolve this problem and will start the new year off with a clean inbox. The only exception I have to deleting all emails is that I found 4 gift cards from last year. Don’t delete your emails without looking at your stores separately, lol! Thank you and as always I love watching your videos.
You said it! Digital clutter can distract & weigh us down just as much as physical clutter can. I'm a ruthless deleter. And having one email address just for for personal & family correspondence, and another one for e-commerce & the like has helped a lot. Great video!
Yes! I have a personal, a junk, and completely separate for bills / home. Way easier to manage and the important stuff doesn't get lost.
Thank you so much ! I had over 100,000 emails . I got rid of them and now I delete them every day. You are such an encourager!
I paused the video and immediately went to do this! I mostly just needed to unsubscribe from a lot of email lists before deleting. Something I have been putting off for the past year, but now it's done! Thanks for the prompt, Dawn. You're the best!
I just got rid of over 8000 emails!!! I put it off for soooo long (there were some emails from 2016) and I am soooo happy now!! Excited to start the new year a little lighter!!! Thanks for making me do this!!!!
I just did this today it was so freeing! Hitting that one check mark to delete all....priceless.
Three years ago, my computer got a virus from opening every email. The service tech advised me to automatically delete all emails that were forwards, (most were silly jokes or goofy animated cards). I took that advice to heart and now I go through my emails daily, I delete most and send the unsolicited ones directly to spam. I haven't had a problem since, and my email accounts are all up to date!
I'm doing not bad on my emails. I will tackle them a bit tomorrow, but I did just clean up my computer desk top screen right after watching this video. What a difference that makes! Thanks for the challenge.
Thank you a million times over! I had almost 19k unread emails in my box! Now it’s empty 💃🏼 💃🏼 I know how it got that way and now, just like my physical junk mail, I can put the big breaks on it!
Thank you! Keep the great ideas coming!
Little by little you are helping me to clear the physical and mental clutter in my life. Your simple approach makes it that much easier to start these tasks that we are too frozen to even know where to begin. Thanks! :)
This is one my favorite episodes! Great idea to declutter email! :D Yay! Thanks!!!
I had 7,600 in my inbox last year. It took me a week to go through them all quickly. I also unsubscribed to a ton. Now I only allow 10 in my inbox at a time. As soon as one can be deleted, out it goes! Feels soooo great! :)
Thank you, Dawn! I was hesitant about hitting that Delete button on all of the items in my Inbox, but it was a relief to see it empty (with only a limited panic moment knowing it is still in my Trash folder for another month). I will say it is QUITE a daunting task to start unsubscribing from all the soliciting emails, but I am determined to keep my personal email under control and decluttered. Thank you for your video!
I needed to hear this! I’ve been trying to come up with ways to keep my inbox manageable. But it’s really hard so I will use your tips.
Also, I use the tag option a lot. I will tag a new person or business so that it goes directly in that folder when it comes. So when I’m ready to tackle that subject/person it’s right there. Also you can search “unsubscribe” and all of the subscriptions come up!! So you can delete in mass, tag, or pick & choose.
My inbox wasn't terribly out of control, but you got me motivated. I cleaned it out and left only 2 messages. Thank you for the motivation!!
Thanks, Dawn! This task has been bothering me for a long time. I have now cleared out my inbox in LESS than 15 min ;)
I have done a lot of the things you suggested and it has made such a difference.
Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you! From inbox of 46569 to “empty folder”
I cleared them all!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Great video! One thing we do to sort is to list email by sender. Makes it so easy!
Done. 26,000 unread emails deleted, fifty at a time! I noticed the back-up plan fits your model: the emails are still available for a trial storage period in case we really need to "look in the box" again. Keep up the good work for us.
I delete a lot in groups by searching for the sender (store name, person etc) knowing that I don’t NEED it for sure . That way it narrows down what I have to go through. Thank you - as always- for the motivation !
Thanks for the encouragement to do this!
I try and take a few minutes every so often while I'm looking at my e-mails I'll try and delete in mass. For example if I come across e-mails from a certain company or store or something, I'll go to the search bar and type in part of the e-mail address and then I can delete all from them. So again, if I have e-mails from Subway, I can go in and unsubscribe, but then type in Subway in the search line and that will bring up all the Subway e-mails and I can delete them all. This seems to be a good way to start lowering the amount of e-mails while still having a little more control of what I delete. It seems like I have to unsubscribe several times for some companies before they actually remove me from their e-mails too.
Watched your video and cleared my private emails immediately... 👍 just about ten left which I wanna keep.
Thanks for kicking my butt 😊
Recently I started having a lot of promotional emails seep into my regular inbox (even though I have a promotional tab in gmail). I remembered hearing on RUclips channel "Do it on a dime" to set a filter that makes any email with the word unsubscribe go to a folder that you create labeled Marketing. This has cut down significantly on the emails I don't want in my inbox but they are still available if I want to see if there's a coupon code or something from an online retailer that I use. BEST TIP EVER! This would also work if you get a ton of emails from a certain companies that are trying to sell you a certain thing, like I get a lot that want me to buy life insurance.
Not to do with emails but to let you know...I started going thru my buffet today and sat and cried because I was so overwhelmed...got thru it but the emotions of letting things go was hard..I thought my Hubble wouldn't like I got rid of stuff his family had given us but he was like if we don't use it let it go .thanks for the videos..especially the Sunday morning ones ..they have helped so much...
This is so helpful! I got through most of it today in less than an hour!!! Appreciate you sharing this!!! THANKS!!
I use folders and I save emails I want to keep or read later in there. I am deleting the rest. Don’t forget your sent emails as well. File and delete those often -> those can really creep up as well. Love the suggestions and ideas!
Thank you!!! I’ve needed to do that for sooo long but wasn’t sure how ❤️
Done! I did that a year or so ago, and I firgit how good it felt!
this worked great! thank you!
Love it!!!❤️❤️❤️
I’m usually around Inbox-ten & that’s good enough for me. I hang onto emails that require action (usually to be done on my computer, not my phone),, reminding (like all the details for a kids’ event that’s written on my calendar), or patience (keeping an order confirmation only until it ships, then deleting the shipping notice when it arrives.) The Snooze function in gmail is awesome too btw!
Thank you very much for your encouragements, tips, and inspiration!! I was just able to get rid of over 14,000 emails! I still have about 2,000 more to sort through and get rid of but I feel confident now that this is possible. :-D
So needed! When I worked my inbox was for to do’s only. Everything else went to trash or a specific folder when it was completed. But since staying home my email is out of control. Thanks!
Wonderful and sensible advice as always Dawn; thank you so much as this area is my weakest when it comes to procrastinating 🤦♀️
Thank you, Dawn, for addressing digital clutter. Some say it's not clutter, but I think it is.
You have helped me a lot, my inbox looks cleaner after several years
I have been so overwhelmed with my crazy inbox (currently 14,711) it had gotten so out of hand I couldn’t manage it. I couldn’t figure out how to delete except for one at a time which is just too much. I’d sit down for 30 minutes and go on a deleting spree and then it felt like it filled back up the next day. Thank you so much for these tips!! I SOOO greatly appreciate it!!
I totally agree with you if I have more than 10 emails waiting I feel anxious just like I do if there is a pile of papers sitting in front of me. and right now with Christmas shopping I have to work a little harder. So I have folders for the items I am waiting to be shipped those that have been shipped and anything that needs to be returned. I’ve been doing this for six years now and I am happy that yahoo mail always makes a big :-) happy when it’s all empty I to have a home business and the same process goes with that as uncomplicated as possible
I used this method several months ago and it was SO FREEING! I deleted everything down to like 2 emails. I was a little worried I would delete something I needed, but I haven’t regretted one email that I have deleted.
The only positive I can say about not dealing with my emails is they are not piled up in my house! Yes I am going to work on them soon
Morning Dawn. It's currently 3am in Scotland so I decided to go through my emails - 1000+ deleted so far. Keeping the ones important to me and taking note of the ones that I need to unsubscribe from. X
Thankful 🌱
I love the "sweep" function and setting "rules".
I like getting emails with coupons and deals from certain stores/restaurants, but they quickly can clutter up my inbox. So I select 1 email. Set the rule that it goes automatically to a separate folder where I keep sales and coupons. Then I set another rule where it is automatically deleted after 1 week or automatically deletes all but the newest from that sender.
Then I "sweep" my inbox, deleting all from that sender in one click.
It takes more time than deleting everything all at once but it sets you up to have a better handle on incoming emails in the future.
Thank you! ☺️ I don't even want to say how many messages I just deleted. I have some messages to go through in my Primary tab and then it is next. It was so freeing!
The unread inbox is essential! Instead of deleting, I prefer mark emails as read in case I need to refer to something which I often do ever since going paperless. Just marking as read allows me to be quicker about clearing my inbox without the worry of weeding through what to keep since everything is searchable anyways. Then I can just focus on my unread inbox.
"Unroll (dot) me" is also free and incredibly helpful. I can not only unsubscribe, but corral any less important emails into only one single email that gives me a quick visual look at what's inside all of them instead of handfuls of emails to go through in my inbox daily.
Great tips.
I have different folders that I put certain e-mails in, such as British Gas, Tesco Mobile & things like that.
I also have yearly folders in which I save special e-mails such as 2021 - 2022, Blogs & Facebook. I often print special ones & put them in my memory books.
OH MY (caps intended) 5000 emails? I would mentally shutdown and I wouldn't know how long it would take to recover ! I will be saying an extra Thank you to my husband who daily clears our email. Important people/groups (including you) have a folder and that is it. Thank you for addressing this issue and for your advice to face reality and just delete them or put them in a known folder.
Thanks for the tip on how to find only unread emails or such. I go through my emails daily. I rarely subscribe and unsubscribe to any I don't use.
Paperwork is my nemesis! Doesn’t matter if it’s digital or hard copy. It’s getting better but what a slow process. Sometimes I want to pitch it all and just take my chances I won’t need any of it ever again (don’t think my bank would agree with that!).
I like your idea of the mass delete. I organise mine by "from" and then delete in groups.
This was great timing for me! I have a goal of getting to inbox zero before the new year. I don't even know how many I have but some go back to 2015. 😂
Thanks! I didn’t know I can search for unread per tab in Gmail. Useful tip! Thank you! Btw - I think you’re a rockstar :). You seem to really be on top of life and you have a beautiful family and super cool and funny husband. I wanna be like you when I grow up ;) 🥰
I knew there had to be a way to delete them all! I'm doing this right after dinner.. Thank you!
This is great! I watched your video while the pasta water was put to boil and finished clearing my inbox before the pasta was ready. Yay! Any suggestions for digital photos?
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I also would appreciate tips for decluttering digital photos
Ughhh digital photos are the worrrrrst.
Thank you for the tips! One way that helps me declutter emails is to sort by sender. That way, all the emails from "my friend" or "my hardware store" or "my favorite charity" are all together. I keep the newest one and delete the rest. Also, if I see that I am getting emails from a business or charity or inspirational site, I see if they have an option for limiting their emails to me. If I can reduce emails from daily to weekly or even just monthly, that saves me from deleting multiple emails every day. Also, if I receive emails from a group, I always choose the digest option (usually get one email with several messages once every few days, instead of an email everytime someone posts.
Totally emptied my 30,000!!! Yes 30,000 emails!!!! I’m at zero!!!!
I’m at 2300 unread emails 😂 I guess I needed this video!
All your suggestions are exactly what I do. I stop feeling guilty about the desire to read them but just never getting around to it. Every time I would look at the unread emails I would feel the same stress/guilt as I would looking at the clothes I had spent money on and not worn. Give yourself a break and unsubscribe and delete them ALL!! Lol