People! Now I'm really embarrassed. Your guesses on the emails I deleted are, well. Not quite hitting the mark. I've had this laptop for three years, have belonged to a few of those Yahoogroup lists, some of which were quite prolific, I get newsletters, spam, personal emails, all kinds of stuff that comes electronically. I have deleted occasionally over the years, but obviously not enough.
Let's start from scratch. Should I give a hint? I don't know...... The hint I'm thinking of might put you way over the mark, but I think I'll go with it.
After your previous stabs at this, I feel like I'm revealing a deep, dark secret, pulling a skeleton out of the closet. But, I'll let you know that, even though I don't remember the exact number, the unread emails totalled over (I'm having trouble typing the number here), ten thousand. Could you see that? Okay, I'll say it louder: Ten thousand! I think I'll just leave it at that.
I keep knitting scarves, but I
Should be deleting
Three hundred forty-eight to go. Imagine, it could all be snail mail!
oh my, can I guess 11,111 then?
Posted by: jenny | January 18, 2008 at 05:27 PM
WOW! That's a lot of email. I shall not do the math and figure out how many you average a day.
The blue scarf is lovely. Will it be yours?
Posted by: Karen | January 18, 2008 at 06:22 PM
Oh. My.
Posted by: Carole | January 18, 2008 at 06:49 PM
I am going to guess (can I still guess?)..umm...1623.
Posted by: katy | January 18, 2008 at 06:57 PM
So because you deleted our e-mails that means we can guess again! My guess is 15,07. Sounds like you need to purge your inbox pronto. Click at the top and drag through all of them and delete! It's very cathartic!
Posted by: Manise | January 18, 2008 at 09:07 PM
Oops! I mean 15,070!
Posted by: Manise | January 18, 2008 at 09:49 PM
10,650! Hey where is the cute sheepy mug from??
Posted by: Carla | January 18, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Hahahaha! Okay, okay... 13,131.
Posted by: Vicki | January 19, 2008 at 12:01 AM
I've come by for the first time via Becca's Byline, and am glad to have found you. Your tutorial on defragmenting the hard drive is absolutely wonderful! I don't know many IT techs who would use the family laundry as an analogy, but it's perfect! You've reminded me it's about time I cleaned up my laptop instead of bemoaning how slow it is all the time.
Posted by: Imelda / GreenishLady | January 19, 2008 at 07:16 AM
I should have gone with first idea...knew it had to be very high (my idea was 21,345) because if you can't delete one you won't/can't delete any! ;-) Pretty scarf.
Posted by: margene | January 19, 2008 at 08:31 AM
I'm really bad when it comes to emails too. Not quite as many as yours, but too many for sure.
Posted by: Cara | January 19, 2008 at 09:50 AM
Wow, I thought by 90 unread e-mails were bad. Now I know. ;-)
Very lovely Noro, btw.
Posted by: Beth S. | January 19, 2008 at 11:54 AM
FINALLY. Someone more OCD than me.
Posted by: Laurie | January 19, 2008 at 06:47 PM
They do build up don't they. The first semester we had email at our school( early 1990's, the coach asked me to help him open his account in December as he had never been able to and didn't know if he had any mail. Now remember we were all just getting started on emailing then. I said sure as I wanted to see how much mail he had missed. Something like 390 messages. That was 1993-ish? Just from end of August to the middle of Dec. What would it be like today! :)
Posted by: Helen | January 23, 2008 at 09:17 AM