Today is Martin Luther King Day and in celebration I decided to set myself free from all the excessive emails I get and unsubscribe to all the stupid mailing lists I am on. I have spent the last half hour going through my email and clicking unsubscribe to all the emails I receive and never read. These are the emails that clog my inbox and make it practically impossible for me to see the good emails. I can’t tell you how many times I have wanted to reply to someone but I don’t have the time and I think to myself, I’ll do it later. The thing is, so many emails are coming at me that the email I wanted to respond to is suddenly buried and now it’s out of sight and out of mind. (I know, excuses are like butts, everyone has one and they all stink)

You would be surprised at the different unsubscribe methods there are. Some are super easy. Click the unsubscribe link and a window pops up saying, “You are Unsubscribed.” That is my favorite. Then there are the ones that you have to input your email. This isn’t that easy if you have a bunch of emails. This means I have to go back to the original email and try to find which email addy I used to subscribe, copy it, go back to the unsubscribe page, paste it in and click submit. There are some that ask you to send a blank email to a certain email address that will then remove you from the list but that doesn’t always work if you used an email address that is just a forwarding address so the email addy you would be sending is different from the email they have on file. The most painful removal method, in my opinion, is the one where you click on the unsubscribe link and you are taken to a page where you have to enter either some customer number or username. Of course, I don’t know the number or the username and then I have to request them to send it to me and somehow they don’t have my email address in that system so I have to write to their customer service department asking them to remove me. UGh! Regardless, I have removed myself from at least 20 different mailing lists and I am already feeling free… SPAM FREE! 🙂