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This week I’ve managed to stay on top of my paid to read e-mails that come to my personal e-mail account. I’ve also made a lot of headway on clearing out e-mails from friend and family. I did spend an extra couple of hours enjoying reading many of these e-mails this week. I’m now down to a total of 5566 in my 3 accounts combined. That total looks quite good when compared to 9043, but I still have another 1,000 e-mails to go to read my goal.
Our challenge is nearing completion, but we still have work left to do. By now I hope that you have:
- totaled up the # of e-mails in all your inboxes
- set a goal for how few you want to have left at the end of this challenge
- unsubscribed to several e-mail subscriptions you weren’t reading and had no real desire to read
- deleted e-mails older than a month from several other e-mail subscriptions
- set up filters for these e-mail subscriptions
- made folders for each friend or family member that you receive frequent e-mails from and begun deleting old and unnecessary messages.
For our last week I want you to go back through each of the steps above and see where you still need to make progress. I’m still finding some e-mail subscriptions that I should unsubscribe from or filter them to a separate folder. I also still have lots of progress to make on the folders of friends and family. I’ll be spending the bulk of my time here on my friends and family folders. What will you be focusing on this week?
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My junk account had gotten out of hand. (1250+) I spent this morning pretty much just deleting stuff from that. I need to go through my blog account and just get rid of most of that because its all old news. My outlook got reset when I had to switch computers, so there’s not much in there, but my facebook inbox I dont even wanna think about LOL.
I’m curious what you hang on to and what you don’t from your blog address. I keep my backups of my posts and correspondence from readers. Like you the old promotions I delete, but I still have a lot that’s going to stay
Emails you get paid to read? What is that all about? How does it work?
Barbara
There are many paid to read e-mail companies out there Barbara. Basically they send you e-mails with offers and you get paid for opening them. It’s anywhere from a penny to a nickel each. When you get enough in your account you can get a check or request a gift card. I use 4 companies, although I haven’t had as much time for 2 of them the past several months. I used to do my PTR e-mails and my surveys at night when my husband and I were watching TV. A great use of commercial time. You can find links to the companies I use most at the bottom of my weekly savings reviews. http://www.thriftytexaspenny.com/2011/08/savings-review-813.html It was about $10 a week for a couple of hours, so not too bad for something to do during commercials.