I don’t know how I accumulate so many email subscriptions, but most seem to be marketing related. January and August are the two months I spend time actually unsubscribing from lists rather than just deleting the email.

And if I continue to get emails after unsubscribing, I start sending them to GMail’s spam folder. I don’t care if the unsubscribe robot warned me that I might still get a message or two. A warning is not the same as having my permission to spam me. Off to the spam folder you go.

Truly, it is such a pain in the neck to delete all the useless email I get every day. I could just ignore the mail I get that gmail tells me is unimportant (it’s pretty accurate) but it bugs me to have a bunch of unread mail lying around.

So I slog through these unsubscribes, which usually last at least a couple of weeks before I start to see a drop in the flow of garbage. In the end, it’s worth it to have more useful email again.