I'm a packrat.  I have desk drawers full of stuff I "might use someday" and shelves full of books I "might read again."too_much_mail But the real reason I worry that my husband might blow the whistle on me and turn me in to Hoarders is that I'm a cyber-packrat.

Last week, while cleaning off his desk, he found a stack of computer diskettes.  Most of them contained documents I authored at least a dozen years ago, when I was freelancing for an educational-software company.  They're not on my desk because my laptop doesn't have a disk drive, and I was hoping my husband would dump that data onto some CDs for me.

I doubt, however, that I even have software that would open those documents anymore.  But I still wouldn't let him throw those disks out.

Worse than that, though, is my email inbox.  There's a lot of stuff in there.  In fact, there are several hundred email in there that I've already read.  (That's not even including the emails that automatically go to other folders, like the ones from my recipe email group).

It's time to stop using my email inbox as a to-do list.  I've got to read it, act on it, and delete it.  It's time to be efficient with the data that my email account tosses at me each and every day.

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