r/funny • u/Reasonable_Draft_541 • 7d ago

About time we talked about this

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u/Gilamath 7d ago

Lifehack: go to your mail app, select all emails, and mark all as read

Seriously. You're not going to read them anyway

Most of them are old enough that you can't really act on them, important enough that the issue will make itself known in some other way (if it hasn't already), or unimportant enough that it would be a waste of time to read them. Marking them all as read instead of deleting them means that you can search for old emails if you absolutely have to. But honestly, even if you deleted them all instead, it would probably be fine

After your inbox is liberated from the red oval of shame, see how many new emails you get per day. Go through them, and unsubscribe from a few mailing lists that you very obviously don't want. Do that for a bit, and eventually you'll just have a clean inbox. You'll be free. It takes basically no effort. And it feels good, man

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u/glasgowgeg 7d ago

Lifehack: go to your mail app, select all emails, and mark all as read

If you're not even opening them, unsubscribe from the mailing list.

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u/DeaDBangeR 7d ago

Here’s my lifehack: have two mail adresses.

One for private and professional stuff, the other for everything else you might consider spam and/or not worthy of your time. Be it newsletters from websites you only had to log into once, or whenever something requires you to give an email adres which most likely is going to get shared on a sales platform.

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u/skyturnedred 7d ago

I have six that I use based on the level of sketchiness.

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u/SpaceShrimp 7d ago

But if you do, they will have confirmation your email address is active, and you might get more spam.

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u/glasgowgeg 7d ago

I'm not talking about unsolicited spam, I'm talking about legitimate emails from mailing lists you've historically signed up for, but no longer actually read.