I'll move stuff to a sent folder if I want a record on when and to who I sent something, or of the version I sent them. Usually submissions to a client. Otherwise I don't bother with it. But I'm annoyed that our default is now that anything over 30 days gets deleted - being able to grab stuff from there has come in handy any number of occasions.

I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.

God, never. I get twitchy at the little envelope indicator, or the light on the BB.

I try to keep my inbox in check, but only periodically do. At which point I go through and delete things I should've, and file everything else in folders, and leave the truly pending stuff in my inbox (I never get to inbox zero), mostly down to about inbox 50. What I DON"T do, and know i SHOULD, is go through my sent mail. That's just a big mess.

Granted, I don't have a high volume of email, so I guess that plays a big part. But I don't even think about my Sent folder.

Thanks to all of you, I just categorized, moved and/or deleted close to 1000 emails from my inbox and sent, deleted and junk folders. That still leaves me with a 2100 message, 135 unread inbox, but that's about as good as I've ever been. Time for lunch.

Okay, not really. Time to run home to collect all the items I forgot while dealing with Matilda's early morning epic meltdown and deliver them to their recipients before we get slapped with another epic bill (weird school photo setup, where you get a gigantic envelope crammed with pictures and have 3 weeks to review them, then must return everything you don't want to pay for. DO NOT LIKE. Wanna just check boxes, pay for what we want up front, and not have to worry about taking it all home and bringing it all back again.).

But after that...lunch.

I have only 47.68 MB of storage in my work email. I clean out all the damn time, by necessity as much as anything. We are supposed to move to a newer system next summer.

I delete a lot. I keep CYA and things I'll forget. I have 20-40 "in progress" emails in my inbox at any given time (the oldest of which dates back 15 months now, but I'm not emotionally ready to order business cards yet!)

I can't handle having unread email. If I don't want to read it, then I delete it.

I'm always amazed when I see people with hundreds of unread emails.

I only clean out Sent becuase I use it as a reminder list for things I'm waiting for. I guess I could use flags, but I like being able to see the whole list at once in both my Inbox and Sent.

The few unread e-mails I have, I have actually reviewed in the preview pane, but they are things that I can't deal with at the moment but I want them to draw my eye.

Some of that is a habit learned from working with my old contracts manager. She put return receipts on everything and expected you to respond immediately once you had read the message. Sometimes she would call as soon as she got the receipt to talk about the message. If I just looked at it in the preview pane, she wouldn't get the receipt and I'd have more time before I had to deal. So glad I don't work with her anymore.

Love IM. Quick conversation and no phone call or email to deal with. WIN!

I keep my inbox pretty clean. I'm scared to see how nuts it'll be after my 5 month maternity leave. Yikes.

Notice how I'm not taking part in the clean-out-yer-inbox conversation? It's because I have nothing to add to it. Anyone who has seen my house knows exactly how messy my inbox is.

Sigh.

Oh well.

I need some natter, y'all. I'm at work for 5 more hours, much of it sitting around doing nothing. I need distractions.