To have 4978 unread emails?

[Cruelstepmother]

I've just deleted another 7166 unread emails... I'm overwhelmed. I think they are breeding.

I had around that many - when I was locked out of my email for 6 months!

I check them every day. These are the useless boring ones and the self-explanatory ones like 'Fred Bloggs commented on a photo you were tagged in on Facebook' or 'Your Argos order has been despatched'.

Setting my notification parameters and unsubscribing from anything that is "fluff" has helped me a bunch. I HATE unread emails, so managing them helps me pretend that I am a functional adult.

I have 13,723.

@10percentbatteryremaining ooh thank you! I feel so much better!

I have 6079 unread on my gmail account. Feeling better seeing 10percent’s figure though! Mind you that cavalier attitude to battery remaining is worrying!

I have thousands.... although when I delete then im not sure what im doing wrong i cant ever get more than a few at a time to delete then i have to delete them again from the delete box im so not savvy where am i going wrong?? Doing this hundreds of times is not appealing

I currently have 51,503 unread emails.

I have 49,902 emails. I’m waiting for the magic 50k, then I’ll wipe the whole lot.

43,187 meh

I have over 50k unread emails... luckily Outlook now has the 'Focused' mailbox which appears to filter the important emails (your Just Eat order is on its way).

I have had similar amounts in the past. Can you sweep delete every email from the same sender? That can help clear lots. Plus I unsubscribed from loads of the junk emails as I just couldn’t bear getting so much crap every day.

You're all giving me anxiety with these declarations do none of you find things chaotic when it comes to managing life? I wouldn't be able to sleep with more than 3 unread mails

I have 5 email addresses: 1 professional, 1 for signing up for things, 1 work, 1 in my birth name (hardly used) and a recent governor one for DC's school. There are less than 20 active emails over all of them. I use folders and unsubscribe to all marketing tripe.

What comes in is relevant.

I wait until I’m home sick then spend the day mass deleting 1000’s of emails. Unsubscribing from bastard mailing lists I never asked to be on, and updating my notification preferences on regular-use websites.

It is boring, but a necessary part of modern life. Very satisfying when it’s done. Also helps that when I’m sick, I don’t overthink the deleting. I just plow on...

You are being very very unreasonable!!

What about all those foreigners waiting to deposit vast sums of money in your account? Think how they feel .

What about all the chances you are missing to buy cut price Viagra?

Or penis extensions.

Really, get your act together and answer every single one

I have thousands too, last time I remember noticing the number it was 11,000. That was last year.
Emails are checked every day in case something comes in that I need to read, I just leave the other emails unread that I don't need to read.
Never occurred to me to go deleting them!

Just get into the habit of left swiping when you see one you don’t need or once you’ve read. Takes less than a second.

I'm not organised at many things in life but all three on my inboxes have no unread emails. The thought of there being a little red mark on my iPhone screen gives me anxiety. I also clear out my Junk boxes daily too.

Do have trouble putting my phone down though.

In one box I have 69,790 then 481 junk and in my other box I have 48,595 😁

No idea what is in my gmail accounts as it just says 99+ in all 3 in the app and I can't be bothered logging into the website.

I have yahoo and an old hotmail too that I haven't used in years upon years.

I have over 100,000 unread... and it doesn’t bother me at all...

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This is why I love my gmail account: it sorts them for me and only tells me the unread number in my inbox - both gmail and I ignore whatever number goes into my "Social" and "Promotions" folders