Even if you delete 99 per cent of email newsletters from stores and restaurants, they can occasionally send you a deal good enough to keep you from unsubscribing. Instead of cluttering your inbox and habitually deleting deals you may want later, try giving all of those newsletters a dedicated spam email address.
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Honey Smith at Get Rich Slowly loves keeping these newsletters in a separate account because it makes it easier to sort through them before running errands. For example, if she and her husband want to head out for dinner, but don’t have a place in mind, they can just open up the spam email account to find a few current deals. If those emails had arrived a day before in Honey’s main inbox, she probably would have deleted them without a second thought.
Keeping these messages segregated can also curb impulse shopping:
Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, it spares me the ego-depleting temptation of acting spontaneously because of a limited-time offer. While I do check the account occasionally, I do a lot less impulse-shopping due to the out of sight, out of mind factor.
I like this solution better than giving retailers a fake or temporary email address, since they do occasionally offer great deals. If you’d like to keep them a little more accessible, but still out of your inbox, take previously-mentioned Unroll.me for a spin.
The spam email strategy for savings [Get Rich Slowly]
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