Saturday, October 18, 2008

Reclaiming the Inbox


Yesterday I achieved something great. I cleaned out my email inbox. This is awesome considering I had almost 10,000 unread messages. I went through and took my email address off of mailing lists (some of them make it hard!) and deleted everything else. I went though almost a year of backlogged crap. Usually, when it gets that bad, I give up and start a new email address and leave the old one to be devoured by the Spam Wolves. But this time I fought back. They don't own me! I wrote a nasty note to Viagra. I told MyPoints to take a hike. I asked Victoria's Secret who she thought she was kidding. And I let every real estate agency know that my quest was over and to focus on somebody else. So, now... my inbox is empty.

Empty.

It turns out it's not as appealing as I thought it would be.

2 comments:

Kirsten said...

it just shows you how out dated emailing is any more... NO ONE REALLY DOES IT... which means all we get is spam

Unknown said...

That is a great achievement. Like when Rory and Lorelai canceled all of their magazine subscriptions. Don't sell yourself short. We need to take our triumphs where we can.