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> I've just spent some time decluttering my email box, and it occurred to me > that this might be a good challenge for some of us occasionally, esp. > at the end of the month? > We could look back over the month's emails (and prior months, if necessary) > and begin hitting that delete button! > Some of you may have conquered this particular demon, but I need a > regular kick in the pants to make me deal with it!! Hi Karen, I am the same as you. I let the e-mails buildup until I can't stand them anymore, and then I start deleting. I do use one technique that I learned on this list for dealing with it, although I can never seem to keep up with it for more than a week or two at a time, and then I seem to fall back into my bad habits again. Anyway, I use the technique where you have to keep up on what's coming in, as well as working on the old stuff little by little. So, what I do is I have a Daily To-Do item that says "Read all of yesterday's e-mail, and deal with 10 more old e-mails". I chose yesterday's, because its easy to see what's dated yesterday, plus I'm not (so) tempted to keep checking my e-mail during the day in order to read today's mail. And 10 old e-mails seems like a manageable enough amount. I actually cleared out an e-mail folder of over 2000 messages (mostly recipes and such), using the 10-at-a-time approach. It took a while, and sometimes I read more than 10, but I finally got it done. Pam. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
