Am I the Winner or can you do better than this?

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I have 8016 emails in my inbox. They go back years and years.

Probably around 7500 of them are unread, unsolicited spammy crap. Why it is that you buy a skirt or a bouquet of flowers or a door knob once from one company and they think you want to hear from them twice a fucking week for the rest of all time I DO NOT KNOW. I'm constantly clicking unsubscribe but it seems to make no difference. It's like Whack-a-Mole or zombie slaying. You can't kill them off, ever.

And of the rest that were not spam, probably only 400 were ever actually important and truly necessary. They should be sorted out, deleted or moved to a file I suppose, but I've long since lost track of it all and don't know where to start, so I just continue to ignore them all. I'm tempted to just delete the entire lot but there is that fear that there is bound to be something I'll need to refer to later, and I'll have stupidly deleted it.

I loathe my email inbox. Absolutely loathe it. It overwhelms me. Clutters up my life and my brain and my devices for no good reason. I avoid looking at it, so when something actually important arrives I often don't spot it for days or weeks.

I really wish it was just illegal to send people junk mail through their inbox. It could send a person mad. No wonder everyone is burnt out, can't concentrate and convinced they've got ADHD or autism. The onslaught of communication and people fighting for our attention is relentless.

This is an absolute bugbear of mine, I’d absolutely hate it. I’ve told DP he’ll know if I ever go through his phone because I’d tidy up the thousands of notifications he has on practically every app. He doesn’t just hoard emails but messages on every platform. ARGGGHHHH

Quite a few on my phone

I have 7 emails in my inbox all read and there for a purpose - I became ruthless and is so much easier to

And this is why I delete emails every day because otherwise I dread to think of the amount of storage it would be taking up

Not by a long shot! 214,750 and that is only one of 4 email addresses! I really need to spend some time purging it all but it just seems such a huge job.

I don’t want to sound like I’m lecturing, but just want to mention that keeping large amounts of any kind of data (emails, photos…) takes up space in servers and therefore has an environmental impact (and when you think of that magnified by billions across the globe, it’s significant). It’s just one example of how changing our behaviour (if enough of us do it) can have an impact. AI also has a big environmental impact. I expect everyone already knows this but mentioning just in case.

@PretzelChoci did not know you could change the swipe action - thank you! my emails are actually the most organised part of my life by far, but this will make a big difference to mansion them

We should lecture this stuff. It’s so simple and yet could have an impact of everyone did it.

I thought I was the winner with 205,849, but I see someone before me has a higher number ☺️.

11,326 UNREAD emails in my inbox. Need to clean, as I am using 15.9GB of storage just for emails, but can’t be arsed.

76650

Have a few separate folders so important receipts, holiday info etc gets moved straight to them . Daily delete anything I don't need and unsubscribe as I go . Currently no unread emails, but now I'm thinking I'm the odd one !

I very regularly unsubscribe to everything. I buy a lot of stuff online and I don’t want to see all the sales and offers tempting me into spending more! Then at the start of each year I make a new folder for that year and anything important I need to keep (there’s not much) goes into that folder.

I’m disorganised in many areas of life but emails is one I always keep on top of. Likewise work emails, everything is dealt with/moved to folders so my inbox is always empty.

I use Hotmail for buying things and get all the rubbish on there. Anything important like insurances etc I use Proton mail, I’ve never had one spam email or add come through it’s brilliant.

100k unread but I think it’s more - the count reset a little while ago

22317 however I mistakenly hit the ‘mark all as read’ button the other year when I had >50k unread. It’s a Hotmail account that I use to sign up to anything online which may send me junk mail.

I see your 8016 and raise you:

😂

over the past few weeks I’ve just deleted 14.5k unread emails. It feels great now they have gone.

374,000 and that is just my inbox. I set up the
email address in 1996.

4903, positively angelic 😁

I just clear out all the marketing emails each morning. I have several email addresses and use them for different things.

My email automatically gets sorted into the Inbox or Junk. Every day or two, I scan down the Junk ones and empty the folder. I get about 20 to 30 junk ones a day - the same old ones, year in, year out - and nothing I'm remotely interested in. I tried unsubscribing and reporting phishing but it seemed to make matters so I don't bother now. But why do they do it? It's like continually posting a load of rubbish through your letterbox and it gives me an unnecessary chore. Really annoying.

It's not difficult but it's a tedious chore I haven't asked for and it seems so pointless.

I totally agree with you OP. I also have so many unread emails and those promotion ones just annoy me so much. I just try to unsubscribe to any promotional email I get.