Mundane jobs

I'm very good at procrastinating when it comes to household chores - they are monotonous & boring and the longer I can put them off, the better it is...until I can't put it off any longer and realise if I'd just kept on top of things it wouldn't take me hours to do each time!!

So, whilst putting off doing the hoovering this morning I thought I'd check my emails - an everyday job that can take me hours as I'm easily distracted by other websites.  Anyway, I suddenly noticed that I have over 19,000 unread emails. No, that isn't a typo. Nineteen thousand unread emails!! How did that happen?? 

Now I know I'm lazy - if it's a general update email or a newsletter type one (ie from Groupon, Twitter / Facebook notifications etc) I just look at the subject line and if nothing grabs my attention I don't both opening it but seriously? 19,000+ times I've ignored messages?!! Wow!!

I decided to go back to the start of my emails and there's some ranging from 2007 but it's clear that I haven't deleted a single email since the beginning of 2009.

So I've spent the better part of my morning setting up folders for the emails that I need to keep and deleting the really obvious ones that I don't need.  Now to filter through everything else to see what can be binned and what should be kept. Anyone notice that I've put that job off to write a blog post about it haha?!

Anyway, I might be some time - you may have to send out a search party for me ;)

Hmm, all of a sudden the hoovering seems quite appealing...


AFUK x