will has this talent of cleaning out his email inbox frequently and keeping things under control. like, he never has multiple pages of emails sitting there. i guess a big part of it is that he has so many filters and lots of things are automatically archived.
does it come as a big surprise to anyone that i only dream of having an inbox so tidy as his???? while i have a handful of labels that i use and feel like i delete and archive ALL. THE. TIME. i still have at this very moment 538 emails sitting in my inbox. now, only 53 of those are listed as unread. (and that's after working on it for a little bit this morning!) i buy one little thing from deseret book, and boom, they're my friend for life. i sign up for joann's coupons, and boom, i'm getting the "in crowd" emails and coupons for life. i know, i know, i've done it to myself when i sign up for every last birthday freebie i can find because somehow in late january/early february it all seems so worth it... ha! there are certain ones i don't even open. for instance, i don't care about del taco food except for twice a year (our birthday freebies) and we don't even live that close to one! also, my last visit to kohl's, on which i did surrender my email for a discount, i was a little soured by the service and i guess i feel like i'm getting them back somehow by automatically deleting their emails without even giving them a chance. ha! i get teaching resource emails from 3-4 places (i only remember signing up for 2 of those!) which i do like to look at when i get the chance. i also have not changed my email settings on pinterest, so i get an email every single time someone repins anything. sometimes they come so fast they must be emailing me to let me know that someone MAY have THOUGHT about skimming past something that i didn't even pin myself in the first place. my pinterest ways have not changed since the beginning! i simply repin from others!
and the real problem is this: i cannot just delete and walk away! like i said, there are several things that get an automatic delete, but there are too many things that i feel like i have to look at or open first. i have this bizarre need to at least open and look at just about any disney email that comes my way (besides, what if there's a new sweepstakes i could enter with all my disney movie reward points? or even better, new free points to hoard! i have never once entered a code to get points the real way.. hahaha : ) i always want to go through my teachers pay teachers weekly emails to scour the 10 free downloads for the week and see if i want any. breaking news: i have never once paid for anything on teachers PAY teachers. i just love me some freebies! deseret book just about always gets an open, just in case there is something i might want! just in case! it's been at least since last christmas that i've ordered anything, though.. : ) joann's just about always gets an open - and a star... hahaha - depending on what the coupon is and if i think i just might be at joann's before it expires. (which is next to never, really people... : ) maybe if we lived a little closer to one) sometimes the groupons get an open, but especially groupon goods and usually the getaways almost always get an automatic delete. this is all also affected by how behind i feel. if i feel especially buried, more things get an automatic delete. actually, if i'm finding things that most certainly would be expired by now, i actually just feel a wave of relief that i'm not going to deal with it and i just delete. i need will to help me change my pinterest email settings. and we must have done it long ago for facebook, because i almost never get anything from them - thank goodness! oh, i also have a phone number that automatically goes to voicemail on googlevoice. so if i need to go in and update my "unavailable" status for subfinder, they find me reallllly fast and my email blows up with computerized (inaccurate) transcriptions of the recorded voice on subfinder. it's a mix of satisfaction and annoyance as i delete 20some voicemail emails at once.
sooo...... yeah.... i've obviously got a problem. if it's a teaching day i almost never stay on top of it. if it's not a teaching day, and i'm in the mood, i can come close to catching up. but we haven't even covered the "real" emails that come in. things from family sometimes get buried. but my real problem is that i like to leave things in the inbox. whether i've read it or not. i think in my subconscious i would be paying some disrespect if i quickly discarded (though really just archived) an email from someone real! and then there are all the things "real" or not that i save to show will - much like my open tabs.... : ) there are also all the things that i need to remember to take care of, so if i leave it there, of course it will stand out and i'll see it still..... right.....
i'd probably rather clean something real than clean out my email inbox. it's that bad. i'd rather tend to the emails than get a papercut, though.... puts it in perspective a little, huh? : )
sometimes will or i will lament to the other that we "really need to clean out our inbox!!!" and the other will reply with something like, "i know!! me too!!!" we usually leave numbers out of it and find a little bit of comfort as we commiserate. (he'll have, like, 12 sitting there.) then when will does find out/realize how bad mine is he acts surprised. i guess that's nice of him? : ) ha i think that's another big mystery that he just can't understand - how on earth can i let it get so bad??? though, i think the other day he did look back and see that at one point i had been doing pretty well before a huge pileup and gave me some sort of a compliment on that.
well now that i've hid from the cleaning that i haven't even done in place of the email cleaning AND from the turkey that needs me to find all the meat to pull off to save for later, i guess it's time...
i cannot be the only one with this problem... right??? but did payless really need to send me a merry christmas email??
