Email Accounts
I have so many different email accounts that it’s not even funny. I don’t like getting all my mail in a single account because I find that it’s simply too much to go through in a single day, so I try to separate things as much as possible.
For example, my main email account (which I refer to as my “business” account) is one that I try to use for important things such as my freelance writing gigs and contacts, as well as my online banking and financial records.
I also have an email account that I use for all my personal correspondence with friends and family. I don’t want these going to my business account because a lot of it is forwards, pictures, and other stuff that I don’t want to sift through on a daily basis.
In addition, I have an email account that I use strictly for signups at message boards and websites that require a login, an old email account with my maiden name on it that I keep just for the sake of nostalgia (and that I have to sign into every so often to keep active), a job-search email account that I keep for updates from job boards, and of course Contact Me email addresses at all of my websites.
It’s so time-consuming to have to check into all of these, but I can’t stand email clutter and don’t want all of this crap going to the same account.
Still, I’ve got to do something to cut down… maybe I’ll try merging a few of my lesser-used accounts together this weekend and let a few go.