Confessions of an e-mail hoarder…
I try to delete my e-mails. I really, really try. I’ve spent an entire night deleting, moving, and organizing e-mails. I’ve had zero e-mails in my inbox…not zero “unread…” …ZERO. It seemed so empty. I moved a few back into my main inbox. It looked better. It felt better…well, I felt better. But, sure enough, the e-mails piled in again. I soon hit 1,000, then 2,000, and recently, 3,800. I swear I delete the unnecessary ones! There might be one here or there that I forget to delete….like the Facebook notification or the Sephora e-mail. There was a reason I saved the Costco one…maybe a good deal? So tonight, when I began scrolling through, I looked at the e-mails I had purposely not deleted and am dumbfounded as to why I saved them. I know that there’s a thought process (albeit highly ineffective) to this madness. I think I know what it is….I save these little bits of information and use them as a storage vault for all the miscellaneous facts that I have no space for in my head and no time to act on at the present moment. But then I never annotate or move the e-mail to a specific folder so I almost immediately forget why I didn’t delete the e-mail in the first place. And the other part of this…deleting an e-mail seems so…permanent. What if I need to reference it later? The reality is, unless it’s work related, there’s a very, very small chance that I’ll need to reference it later. So, new plan…from now on I will annotate and move an e-mail to the appropriate folder if I feel it need to be saved for future use. Ahhh, this blog is therapeutic. 
