Free is Good

Free is wonderful.

So I spend about 5 minutes of my time everyday signing up for free stuff. I do not even have to look for offer of the free stuff, it comes in my e-mail box every day. And all I need is time in my hands (and for most free stuff offers, a US address).

See the picture on the left? I got all of those for free. Included there is a big can of milk, baby magazines, lotions, creams, diapers, shampoos, conditioners. And coupons, lots of coupons. I am not sure I will be able to use everything, but the feeling of free is good.

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Hoarding Emails (and Letting Go)

I was getting tired of seeing 5,600+ unread mail in my mailbox. What’s funny is I am also being bombarded with emails that say I should simplify my life.

So I did.

But it is harder than I thought.

As of press time, I still have 3,089 unread emails. And it is growing by 50 a day.

I am confounded as to why my unread emails became that much. I am usually overly zealous at reading what’s up in my world and everyone else’s. Looking at my 2008 emails (Gmail has allowed me to keep them), I saw that I had read each and every one. I do not know what happened between then and now.

Maybe it’s just that I am a sucker for enlisting for products and services. In early 2009, I was so big on personal finance and internet marketing that I had signed up for those websites and people my mentors recommended – Schefren, Daily Wealth, Daily Crux, Morningstar, Napoleon Hill, Bob Proctor, League of Extraordinary Minds, Carl Ocab and many more other websites. I seriously think this is the time when my emails ballooned to unimaginable and my life went from simple to crazy-exciting.

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