MY LOVE (ACTUALLY HATE) RELATIONSHIP WITH EMAIL

I have a confession to make. I have gotten to the point where I hate email so much that I avoid it like the plague. 

I miss snail mail. I can remember how exciting it was when I was in boarding school to go down to the mail box every day to see if  I had any letters. I was disappointed many days, but oh how exciting it was on the days when I saw something waiting for me. 

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I can still remember the feeling of looking through that little window and seeing a letter. I could hardly wait to turn those dials with my combination.

These days, mail just isn't exciting. People don't send letters anymore, and as I said, I hate opening my email accounts. In fact, it has gotten so bad I haven't looked at my Gmail account in weeks. 

As I wrote in my last post, my goal is to turn to a more simple way of living. No, that doesn't mean you now have to send me letters only through the USPS. What it does mean is that I don't need the stress of all of the emails I receive everyday. 

I don't know what your email account looks like, but mine is cluttered up with things I never read. It seems that if you subscribe to one thing you are suddenly inundated with a thousand other things. UGH!!!

By the time I go through and delete all of the emails I don't want I am too tired to read the emails I do want. Or sometimes I miss important emails. 

What's a girl to do?

Well, what I am doing is gradually going through my emails and UNSUBSCRIBING from all of the emails I don't want. I am finding that it is a long and arduous task and some of the emails don't have a way to unsubscribe. Those are getting moved to the SPAM folder. 

If you find that I have unsubscribed from your blog email list, it doesn't mean that I am no longer reading your blog posts or that I no longer love you. It just means I am using different ways to read your wonderful blogs. I still have a blog roll on my sidebar. That is generally what I use to follow along with your blogs and I use the blog rolls on other blogs to find new blogs to read.

When I first got email I loved it. I want to feel that way again. I want to be able to find your emails when you write to me. I love those emails. 

I think this simplifying life project is going to work out really well.