Why do I still have AOL?  It’s crazy, I know.  Very outdated.  The Democrats  made fun of Mike Pence because he still uses it.  But there are too many people from my past who still  contact me that way, and I think it’s too late in my life to change my e mail. Here’s the bad thing:  AOL has some way of connecting me to every website I’ve ever visited, and  places where I’ve purchased anything.  Not only that, the politicians have wormed their way in,  and  dog me  for contributions to causes and people I really don’t care about.  Every so often, after receiving about 100 emails a day, I find myself faced with the dreaded unsubscribe chore.

Do you know how to cut down on those unwanted e mails?  I didn’t ,  until I read about it in Heloise. You  know, the lady newspaper columnist who tells you exciting ways to re purpose toilet paper rolls.   At any rate, Heloise said that first, you open the dreaded e mail.  Then, you scroll to the bottom of the page.  Put on your glasses, get a flashlight, and squint at the fine print.  Somewhere in there it says,” unsubscribe.”  You click on that.  And, if you’re lucky,  you will receive a message that you’re unsubscribed.

But it doesn’t always work out so easily.  Often, you will be directed to another message which demands to know why you’re unsubscribing, and making you verify that you honestly don’t want to get any more emails from them.  Or, they ask you to key in your email address–as if they didn’t know.  After you’ve done  that about 30 times a , it gets tiresome and time consuming.  Sometimes,  they’ll tell you that it may take a while to get unsubscribed, and not to worry if you still  keep getting emails from them .  That’s a sneaky way to keep you from losing track of who you’ve unsubscribed. The truth is, some of them will never let you go.

At any rate, today’s the day to start the dreaded unsubscribe chore.  I will only give it an hour of my time, which won’t even scratch the surface.  But you have to start somewhere.