3 weeks ago, I looked at my mailbox and I found myself simply annoyed by all the spam I had accumulated over a period.
So, I got down to being slightly more proactive and went on a major email de-cluttering spree, and did the following –
1) Centralized newsletters to one account, and in the process eliminated a couple.
2) Removed 3 accounts from outlook and my life altogether. Set up permanent auto responders just in case someone does send legitimate emails. (And if its to the spammers, that’s spam right back at them!).
3) Went about unsubscribing from promotions/online stores and lots of other stuff that had just accumulated over the years..
4) Realized I could do without the news.. so that went out.
5) Removed email subscriptions from a couple of the blogs I subscribed to and just added them to the ‘Blogs I read‘ section as I hardly ever miss posts that show up there..
All in all, in 3 weeks, I’m 90% clean. There’s still the odd promo that I’ve not managed to erase but I can already feel the joys of not having to delete unwanted emails and mentally cursing them for coming in (again)..
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De-cluttering once a while is a genuinely liberating experience! So, if you’re feeling messy, Happy de-cluttering!
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