Do You Clear Out Your Inbox, or Just Let the Numbers Sit There

I notice notifications in my email before I notice them at the top of the site, so I almost never open it out and revert it to zero unless it annoys me

I hate it staring at me

Leave it.
 
My inbox right now is 15.7k unread emails and increasing fast.

I only open a message if it's telling me someone responded to me. Otherwise I just leave them there

There was a bug there for a while where the numbers would hang around for a while after the messages were deleted. This made me very angry.

I have never changed my e-mail address, nor have I ever deleted any messages I have received. I have around 2000 unread messages piled up as well. My mom made the e-mail I'm still using to this day all the way back when I was around 7. (I'm now 16) 
  
The very first e-mail I have in my inbox is from Saturday, July 21st, 2001 at 8:40 PM.  
 
It says, " Here is your very first e-mail. 
 
               Love 
 
              Mom" 
  
I also can see a bunch of e-mails sent to my 7 year old self from my grandpa who died a number of years ago.  
 
It's so intense looking back at your life through the e-mails you've received.

I very rarely delete emails. In fact really the only emails I've ever deleted are spam.  
 
@tobygw 
 
That actually sounds really cool. It's unfortunate that I've only started to actively use my email account as of about 7 months ago, but I would totally be doing the same thing one of these days if I had started earlier. 

mine is currently in the high thousands

I have 3223 unread emails from the hundreds of websites I created an account for. 

" I hate when people respond to my comments. "

" @NTM said:

" I hate when people respond to my comments. "

:/ "

" @iWonder: @christ0phe:   Yeah I don't really find it too sad, but more just really cool and makes me feel good. Here's an excerpt from one from my other grandpa.       Hi Toby: today I have just two questions: Question 1: have your permanent front teeth appeared yet? I hope it's not too painful. Question 2: how are your numbers skills coming along? For instance, can you do additions and subtractions yet without using the calculator?      lol "

@tobygw said:

" @Hourai said:

" @NTM said:

" I hate when people respond to my comments. "

:/ "

: \ "

Keep that shit like your face, clean and clear.

I read all my messages but leave them in my inbox. So no numbers for me but lots of messages.

i got 15,124 sitting there at the moment

Well, going through the college app process, and I used a dummy address that I rarely use. So whenever I do check that box it's up to about 250. I usually leave it.

Almost 30k emails as of this post.

Leave it. I'll occasionally go back through with the idea I'll clean stuff out, but it's just a worthless venture.

Star what's important, delete the rest. I'm not a caveman

Clear out.

I empty out my inbox as much as possible. A message will only sit in my inbox as long as it's relevant or as a remind to do something. Once it's no longer needed, I move it somewhere else. If it's something personal or something bill-related, I'll keep it in another folder. Anything else is trashed.

68 unread messages

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@tobygw said:

" @Hourai said:

" @NTM said:

" I hate when people respond to my comments. "

:/ "

: \ "

 

=| "

I suffer from OCD. I always clear out my inbox.

I read them all but delete almost none of them.  That's just how I've always done.  My Gamespot inbox is the same way.  I have PM's in there from 2007. 
 
EDIT - to be clear, I'm referring strictly to website account inboxes.  I delete tons of stuff from my E-mail account.

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I read them all but delete almost none of them.  

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I have an OCD to clean out my email.

I organize all of my emails in folders.

Since I use an actual mail program, unlike a lot of people these days it seems, I just hit the up arrow to 'read' everything right quick, and have the numbers disappear. Stupid numbers.

On GB I make sure it always says 0, if it says 1 and I have no new messages, it annoys me.  
My e-mail however has a shit-ton of unread stuff.

" I notice notifications in my email before I notice them at the top of the site, so I almost never open it out and revert it to zero unless it annoys me "

I clean them out. All of them there just piss me off. So much messages to see for no reason. I could have well over 10,000 by now if I never deleted them. I had my e-mail since I was 14. I'm 18 now.