Rather than deleting emails today, I had to go through the 800+ emails I had gotten for work the last 30 days and make sure that I had taken care of everything I was asked to do. Also, it's a good way for me to follow up and make sure that the emails I've sent to people actually got done.

All it did was make my to-do list MUCH longer but it feels good to know that I'm not missing anything. :-)

Suzy, big WOO HOO for you!

I cleared out my "chat" email account (the non-work one), and have only 11 messages in my inbox now. Work, I have about 15 action-needed email for myself, and a few for DH--cleared out all the old Scouting stuff, though.

I think I tossed around 50 last night and am going back in tonight. I have a bunch of newsletters too, but a lot of them are read quickly and toss, and I don't feel guilty about having them stack up bacause they're in a folder. Here I go.

75 done in only one account!!

In response to this challenge I have been going through my email accounts deleting previously saved (and sometimes simply 'not previously deleted') emails but I didn't keep count of how many. I'm not done yet so my email toss continues!

I went into a couple of web based accounts where I did a bulk delete of spam emails - probably about 150 emails! I never open spam emails - I do a quick visual scan of sender and subject to make sure the filter didn't catch a legit email and then delete.

I have the opposite problem - I delete pretty much every email as soon as I read it. Ctrl + D in Outlook on my work Windows computer or Delete in Mail on my Mac, my fingers are trained now so it's almost automatic.

Thankfully the deleted mail folder doesn't empty itself until I tell it to so when I've needed one again I search for it and up it pops. Of course every now and then I hit the empty deleted items button and clear out the lot and naturally straight away I want one of those deleted emails. But I've never really regretted losing any email!

When I get a personal email from a friend that reveals some really private stuff, I'll respond to it & then (nobody--not even my husband knows my password for email, but STILL...) I'll IMMEDIATELY delete it. THEN I have to delete it from TRASH, THEN I have to delete it from SENT MAIL, THEN I have to delete it from ALL MAIL (I think it is still in there; all I know is I have to go all over the place getting rid of it before it is really "gone.")

So besides deleting stuff from the inbox I will have to go through the sent mail & all mail & delete there. Trash will delete automatically in 30 days. But usually I just go in there & click on "delete all trash." I skim spam as sometimes I DO find stuff in there that is not spam--not often & then delete that.

There is some way to put stuff not in "folders" but some other term that is the same as folders in gmail (I went through the tutorial & tried it & promptly lost the stuff; luckily I'm not doing any work stuff from that email acct.as I couldn't retrive it) so now I do as someone suggested here & copy & paste into a word document & save it that way.

Great tossing, Everyone. In AZ for 9 days!! Willl set aside 30 min. every day to toss & hope I can conjure up RUTHLESS SUZY again as boy, did I accomplish a lot in that persona.--Suzy

I am so glad to find out that it's not only me. I am pretty good about keeping my work email organized into folders after I deal with them, but my personal computer is a completey different story.

I finally had to set aside one day a week that I tackle everything in my "junk mail" box because it would just sit there forever. It's a pain because I'd really like to just press delete all, but sometimes I have found important things somehow make they're way in there (like emails from my mom).

During the work week, I delete junk mail that has made it's way into my regular email box, but I for some reason just leave everything else in there to read "when I have time" and then I never have time. I need to figure out a better system for dealing with that.

I use free emails online (mostly hotmail) so I can keep a large amount of emails and it won't slow down my computer. After I've read an email I put it in a folder by who it's from or delete it, depending on what it is.

Most of my folders are people's names, while I have a few different ones like 'Sites Stuff', 'Orders'(buying online), 'Christmas' (my family will send 50-100 emails back and forth and reply all to plan for holidays, so after this Christmas, I'll empty the folder and use it again for next year), 'Thanksgiving' (same concept as Christmas), and maybe one or two more.

I could go through my old emails a delete a bunch, but it really doesn't affect anything, so right now I'm concentrating on my 'read and delete' type emails.

OK--slower today--but husband is watching the Colts game so I am working on it. Done 30.--Suzy P.S. Anyone had strange problem w/ gmail in the keystrokes skipping & you have to go back & hit the key really hard like the key is sticking, but have no problem here or on word documents? Check gmail troubleshooting. I started having that problem. Bizarre, but there is a reason for it that they tell you how to address it.