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Cleared out my email inbox from 14,000 to zero and it broke my brain for a week
I spent 6 hours over a Saturday unsubscribing and archiving everything, and now I keep refreshing the page like something's broken because there's nothing to panic about - has anyone else felt weirdly empty after a big digital cleanout?
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the_emery13h ago
My 14K inbox zero took me three weeks back in 2022, and I started having dreams about missing emails from companies I'd never even heard of. The weirdest part was how I'd wake up at 3am and check my phone just to see if a new spam had dared to sneak in while I slept. It felt like I'd deleted a part of my identity, like that inbox clutter was actually a security blanket I didn't know I was carrying. I actually went back and re-subscribed to three newsletters just to fill the silence, and then felt stupid for doing it.
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jesse_green5511h agoTop Commenter
dude that re-subscribing part hits hard, I get it.
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