Every month or so I receive an e-mail from a fellow Gmail user asking for the link to my old post on how to get rid of the dreaded Inbox (863) or whatever three digit number is haunting you. As I work to muster the mojo to create new content again, here is that oldie but helpfulie.
How to Delete All Unread Messages in Gmail
And when I say all, I mean ALL. Every last one of those messages that you figured out from the subject you didn’t need to open.
Like those hundreds and thousands of breaking news alerts from The New York Times and The Washington Post that you’re meaning to get to but won’t, the Tory Burch sale alerts from Gilt that you don’t end up opening because you can’t afford the stuff anyways, especially those pesky email feed posts from A Parent in Silver Spring.
Maybe I’m a dummy and you guys with Gmail had already figured this out, but I found the instant deletion of 3894 unread emails so liberating after two years of deleting them in sets of 20. It felt so good to not have a huge number taunting me with my slacktitude that I decided to post here and risk looking extremely stupid. If I can help just one of you guys in an instantaneous declutter of your Inbox, my public humiliation shall not be in vain. (I guess that was a very petty ripping off of Dickinson. I clearly want to look as lame as possible.)
ANYWAYS, here’s how you do it:
In the Gmail search box on top of your messages, type is:unread . Then go to Select and click All. After you do this the first 20 unread messages will be highlighted. Then click the Delete button.
Then a magical link of blue text will appear directly over your messages that saysSelect all conversations that match this search. Click it.
A window will come up asking you if you’re sure. If you want to get rid of every piece of spam that made it to your Inbox or other item you never opened and now is obsolete, you’re sure.
Now, all that remains are items that you *did* open and now need to keep forever. You know, like stuff you need to keep to access later, stuff in your Sent folder you can passive aggressively forward to prove that you already met your deadline or those priceless drunk emails from friends that must be saved for blackmail.But from the unopened, you are free.
It’s the first “real snow” of the year in the DC area, and thankfully, it’s not enough to disrupt our lives and weekend plans. (Hallelujah.) How are YOU spending your snowy day?
Sorry my posting has been light these last two weeks, but I have been on a vacation with my family. After a hectic year, it has been heavenly to enjoy some periods of unplugged time with my children, husband and baby.
I’ve been playing Beach Blanket Bingo…
And fancying myself a mid-thirties Gidget as I boogie board with the kids.
I have used my downtime to research kid-friendly rap music offerings…
But find myself returning to good ol’ pop and ’80s nostalgia…
Sadly, and too soon, we’ll be coming home.
(Regular A Parent in Silver Spring daily posting will resume on Monday.)
Thanks to Jessica Shyba of Momma’s Gone City for the Bert & Ernie rap link, my sister Sarah for making me watch The New Gidget every day after school and my father Tom for buying me that Cinderella tape for my 1987 Christmas Walkman.
“This is my mama. Her name is Jessica. She’s wearing that giant hat and sunglasses so she can be saved from being put in a ditch or a box.”
— How my daughter Eve introduced me today to another mother on the beach, misquoting my earlier joke to her daddy that my over-sized sunglasses and sunhat were a last-ditch effort to stave off Botox.
These photos were taken with the incredible Nikon D3000 with AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lensthat I randomly, luckily won at the #NikonNightOutparty at BlogHer last week! I love hosting giveaways, but NEVER win anything myself. Now THAT’S what I call blog conference swag! Thanks to my bloggy BFF TechSavvyMama‘s generous taking of me to this party as her guest, I will now be able to provide even clearer pictures of activities for families in my posts for A Parent in Silver Spring. Thanks Nikon!
Hitting the spray park with your kids, rocking the Dockers and Blackberry holster, tearing up during Toy Story 3 and tending the hydrangeas are totally gangsta.
Was your first thought, “Where’s a ‘splishy-splashy’ I can hit with the kids today?” You’re a mom or dad after my own heart.
Here are the places I checked out a while back in “A Hot Time to Get Soaked” in the Post. A ** indicates places we have re-hit this year and I still give two thumbs up.
And you KNOW I’d love to take the time to post the deets and link to a ton of more fun stuff going off in the area this weekend, but I got shiz to do. I gotta put a cap in those dust bunnies and shopvac the Goldfish from the Odyssey. Then I be rolling to the G to pick up Capri Suns, hot dogs (nitrate-free, natch) and extra Goodnites for my homies. Because being a mom is pretty sick too.
