As my (free) email account is reaching its capacity limit (again!), I spent the past three days - in between working on this issue - deleting old emails. Some I remember keeping “just in case,” and some I don’t remember keeping at all (and would swear I deleted at the time they arrived). There are also emails that I saved to read “later” that haven’t been read in over 6 years! Note to self: just because you can keep something doesn’t mean you need to!
I focussed most of my digital declutting efforts on emails
from 2016 and 2017, which was a time in my life when I experienced a massive
health setback, so that may also be why I have a large email backlog.
It was interesting to see what interested me (lots of health
related topics as I tried to figure out what was causing my health issues) which
no longer do, and what was just becoming an interest (lots of subscriptions to
artists’ email lists) as I started to transition to a new phase of life.
The most interesting find during the email purge was a
handful of emails, from an artist I admire, who had pictures of her artworks at
the bottom of each email. Of the ones featured in the saved emails, I have
copies of her paintings in her art & poetry chapbook that I did the
interior layout for, and two of her original paintings now hang on my wall!
Beth
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