Downsizing 2020: sales emails
Dec. 16th, 2019 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gailmom77One of my weaknesses that contribute to money issues and clutter is impulse shopping. This habit is, I've noticed more than usual this holiday season, greatly facilitated by texts and emails with promotions and deals and coupons falling into my inbox.
I'm usually pretty great about just deleting them, but since sometimes they catch my eye and I look through to "see if there is anything I need" I think it's time to remove temptation from my inbox. I still have apps for the ones I most often frequent for an actual pre-determined purpose, so I'll be able to pull those up if I need to check for a coupon for a purchase I'm already making.
This evening I sat down with my email and a piece of paper and went back through emails to see how many I could easily unsubscribe.
So now my inbox will no longer have:
Khols
Loot Crate
23 & Me offers
Motorola
Office Depot
Hilton Grand Vacations, also Hilton Honors
Pet Mountain
Uber
Early Bird Books
Humble Bundle
Hot Topic
Good Yarns
UPS (except print coupons, since we routinely use that service)
Amazon Kindle Deals
eBay
PetSmart
Chewy.com
Coupons.com
Walgreens
Pet Mountain
Grandin Road
Harbor Freight
Ulta Beauty
Audible
Redbubble
Elanco Animal Health; I don't even know what this is
That still leaves JoAnn, Micheals, and Target but I was having trouble with those tonight so I'll tackle them on another night when I have some more oomph to spend.
Also removed myself from mass emails from 23 & Me research updates, my bank, the shelter we volunteer with, and the rescue we used to volunteer with, on the assumption that doing so will only remove me from mass mailings and not actual personal emails about needed help or scheduling.
I need to figure out how to get Target and eBay to stop texting me offers, then things should be a bit less messy and tempting.
It wasn't until I was going through, unsubscribing, and writing down which one I'd just done that with (to avoid trying to unsubscribe twice from the same place) that I realized just how very very many I've been getting!
I'm usually pretty great about just deleting them, but since sometimes they catch my eye and I look through to "see if there is anything I need" I think it's time to remove temptation from my inbox. I still have apps for the ones I most often frequent for an actual pre-determined purpose, so I'll be able to pull those up if I need to check for a coupon for a purchase I'm already making.
This evening I sat down with my email and a piece of paper and went back through emails to see how many I could easily unsubscribe.
So now my inbox will no longer have:
Khols
Loot Crate
23 & Me offers
Motorola
Office Depot
Hilton Grand Vacations, also Hilton Honors
Pet Mountain
Uber
Early Bird Books
Humble Bundle
Hot Topic
Good Yarns
UPS (except print coupons, since we routinely use that service)
Amazon Kindle Deals
eBay
PetSmart
Chewy.com
Coupons.com
Walgreens
Pet Mountain
Grandin Road
Harbor Freight
Ulta Beauty
Audible
Redbubble
Elanco Animal Health; I don't even know what this is
That still leaves JoAnn, Micheals, and Target but I was having trouble with those tonight so I'll tackle them on another night when I have some more oomph to spend.
Also removed myself from mass emails from 23 & Me research updates, my bank, the shelter we volunteer with, and the rescue we used to volunteer with, on the assumption that doing so will only remove me from mass mailings and not actual personal emails about needed help or scheduling.
I need to figure out how to get Target and eBay to stop texting me offers, then things should be a bit less messy and tempting.
It wasn't until I was going through, unsubscribing, and writing down which one I'd just done that with (to avoid trying to unsubscribe twice from the same place) that I realized just how very very many I've been getting!
