Better than therapy

I recently read this Wall Street Journal article with some amusement. I can definately count myself amongst the well organised crowd. My email inbox is extremely organised (even more so since I use a Gmail account), people get timely replies, and finished emails get labelled and archived. I am obsessed with doing this. A messy inbox really gets my back up and I feel...well, agitated!

Email organisation is essential for me as I get a minimum of 50 emails a day. If I didn't have an organisation system, I would have a nervous breakdown trying to keep on top of it all.

Now compare this with my girlfriend. Her email inbox is notoriously messy and she can have up to 150 emails in her inbox at any one time. She considers clearing out her inbox as a "special occasion". She will have email confirmations from the local pizzeria confirming our pizza order from New Years Eve 2005. In short, she is loath to throw anything away because "we might need it again sometime". If I want to get my blood pressure up, all I need to do is look at her email inbox and within seconds, I am gripping the table, my knuckles going all white.

I should be grateful though - she DOES delete her spam emails. Imagine my horror if she kept the emails offering her cheap viagra or reduced interest on a personal loan.

In fact, I emailed this article to her and when she found it in her over-crowded inbox, she looked at me with this deadpan "you've got some explaining to do buster!" look and she just said "are you trying to tell me something with this?". Yeah, only what I've been telling you for 5 years - clean out that damn inbox of yours!