I am a saver and a procrastinator with ADD. You know what that means for my inbox? It means that I have 1200 messages in Outlook. Yep 1200. One two double zero.
When I saw this number last night I screamed at myself…”How did I get here!?”
This is how. Every morning I have about 30 new emails most of which are junk. My procrastination means that I only click on 1 or 2 interesting ones and leave the rest for later. My ADD is the reason that it takes me all morning to respond or do whatever it is I need to do with those 2 emails. But it is the saver/hoarder in me that is why those 2 emails along with the 30 others never get deleted. This goes on day after day until now I have 1200 mostly useless emails just rotting away in my inbox.
BUT, if I ever want to go back and read about the free financial seminar that was offered at my bank 2 years ago it’s there. Or the cartoon of Garfield drinking a cup of coffee in his pajamas that’s there too. What if I need to reread the email my sister sent out 3 years ago planning our annual tamale making day? How about who was going to be on the Oprah show the week of 4/16/2008. It’s there….somewhere.
I don’t even want to think about how high that pile would be if this was actual mail.
(If you’re like me you can probably benefit from xobni which my husband made me download last night and is a HUGE help.)
I came across this story today and it caught me attention. “Risk of child abuse rises when potty training.” When I was working with at risk families this was one subject that we always stressed to parents. Please Please Please have realistic expectations when potty training. Otherwise it can get ugly quickly.
Sorry that’s it for today…gotta get back to watching the Michael Jackson Memorial and a very very tired toddler who was up at 5:30 a.m. 
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andy says...
potty training my son was waaaaay easier than my girls.
my little guy loved to hit the cheerios in the toilet…and we also bought him toys from the dollar store.
my middle girl could hold her pee for 12 hours. i gave in that day cuz i was afraid her bladder would burst;)
andy
July 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
kel says...
I would so delete all those messages!! That would make me nuts!
July 7th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Tracie says...
Ugh! You had to remind me of the potty training days!
Adorable layout by the way!
July 7th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
ArtSnark says...
I have email issues too – bit the bullet last week & just hit delete
July 7th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Mom says...
I’m your mother and I never knew!
July 7th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
LeftLeaningLady says...
Did you know you can create personal folders and just MOVE all that stuff over there? That way you still have that inviation to the seminar, but you don’t have to look at it every day!
July 8th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Jill says...
Yes and I have about 9 sub-folders but the procrastinator in me (or maybe it’s just pure laziness) is why most never make it over there. I’m working on it today though.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Keely says...
Um, wow. That was a frightening article. Good to know I’m right on course with my slacker “non-training” style.
I had 1900 emails in my gmail at one point. Most of them were garbage but I had to go through them all to find a few I actually needed. My problem is more laziness…
July 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Shop with Me Mama says...
I am trying to teach my daughter to go on the potty! she did the other day yae!!
July 8th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Heidi says...
I have 880 unread messages in my inbox. Suddenly my ADD/Procrastination/Hoarding tendencies don’t seem so bad.
You have an annual tamale-making day?! AWESOME! Is it coming up?
July 9th, 2009 at 6:38 am
SUZETTE BRANCH says...
I just like the approach you took with this subject. It isn’t every day that you simply find a subject so concise and informative.
May 31st, 2010 at 5:30 pm