Decluttering my inbox

I've started the process of decluttering my mailbox, I decided tonight to start decluttering my inbox.  I think from signing up for registries and coupons, I've ended up on 16 million email lists.  With the iPhone, it's easier to just delete the emails when I receive them instead of unsubscribing.  Which leaves my inbox at 384 new emails from the last 4 days.  Seriously.

So tonight I took the time to sit down and viciously remove myself from email subscriptions.  For example, a few months ago I was looking to order a pair of maternity scrubs online and wanted discounts.  I signed up for the mailing list on a bunch of different sites to see which one sent me a better deal.  But I never took the time to unsubscribe from any of them, more or less all of them like I should have.  I tried to unsubscribe in the same fashion I clean out my closet.  If I have not ordered from them in the last 6 months, they immediately were unsubscribed from. 

But I also get email coupons for groceries, Costco, Children's Place, Target, etc.  Places that I sometimes do need coupons and I don't want to miss out on those.  But I don't need to read the emails every day...just when I'm going to get Ali a new hat or something.  With gmail, I was able to create filters for incoming mail so that certain senders completely skip my inbox and go directly into other folders, such as 'Deals/Target' or 'Deals/Coupons'.  I also get emails from Babycenter.com and Gerber.com with valuable child raising info.  These are now sent directly into a folder 'Baby'.  Now my phone won't alert me that I have new mail when I receive things from them, but once a day or so I can go into the folders and see if there's anything interesting.  Another one I get is a million pizza offers.  So now there is a folder 'Pizza'.  Again, I didn't want to unsubscribe because we like discounts on pizza!

It's been a little over an hour and my inbox is down to 92.  I still have some more 'filtering' to set up, but for now my ankle hurts way too badly and I'm going to call it a night.  Weaning down to one crutch is making my arm feel slightly better, but it's a lot of pressure on my ankle and wow does it hurt.  Mom took Ali and I out tonight to dinner and I think that's about all I can handle.  I was supposed to go to the zoo tomorrow with Dad and Ali but luckily I opted out.  I thought I could handle it but then I remembered the ridiculous amount of stairs at Conseco.  Now I'm really glad I did, there's no way I could handle it.  And poor dad would have to cart around me AND Ali!  JM most likely won't be back in time from Toledo, so Uncle Greggy is going in my place.  I'm so excited for Ali...she's going to LOVE it!!!