https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:30:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598361 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:22:29 +0000 Bao 598361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everything from an actual person I keep. I also have a whole ton of HB notifications. I feel bad deleting them and I have no idea why lol I should do that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598297 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:48:13 +0000 Grace 598297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I delete everything (unless there's important info that i need to remember). I'm never going to read it again, so why would I keep it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598276 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:24:51 +0000 MediaNaranja 598276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: I totally do reminisce, ha. I like seeing how I was feeling at certain points in time!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598272 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:20:24 +0000 avivoca 598272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friends rarely email me. I go through once a year and delete anything that more than 18 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598266 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:17:01 +0000 .twist. 598266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: I feel the same way. What if I want to reminisce about that conversation one day?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598262 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:14:52 +0000 Meridian 598262@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I archive everything and only delete junk... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598238 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:59:34 +0000 MediaNaranja 598238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>omg i save everything, I can't make myself delete things from friends (what if I need to look at it again someday?!). I only recently deleted the old emails from when I was a TA in college.....7 years ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598234 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:58:00 +0000 Dandelion 598234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I delete pretty much everything. I save order confirmations until I receive my stuff, and recipes I email to myself, but everything else gets deleted. I hate clutter in real life and in my inbox, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598219 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:53:48 +0000 .twist. 598219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: lol! already done! I'm glad I made this thread all of a sudden. :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598208 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:47:29 +0000 mrbee 598208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: if you think there's a chance of a legal proceeding, I would literally trash your entire inbox! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598202 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:44:38 +0000 .twist. 598202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: oh wow, that sucks. sorry you had to do that! So, I didn't understand what it meant and I don't do that but honestly I probably should!!!!! We have a lot of issues with my husbands ex and I vent a lot to friends about her so maybe I should go through some of my emails... hmmmmm </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598195 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:42:12 +0000 mrbee 598195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Sure my brother used to work at an investment bank, and Elliot Spitzer decided to take on all of Wall Street and subpoenaed all of the emails from my brother's work (and other investment banks too). All of those emails were dumped into a database, and manually reviewed by an army of paralegals... I and my family had emailed personal stuff to his work email, so all of that stuff was in there. Awesome.</p> <p>Years later I got sued and had to voluntarily turned over any email and/or saved chat that might even be tangentially related to the matter at hand. Again, a lot of very personal material ended up going into discovery.</p> <p>Now I save almost nothing. Never again... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598182 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:38:08 +0000 .twist. 598182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Can you give me an example? Not a personal one just in general? I want to make sure I understand this because I think I do the same thing but am unclear of what can and cannot be subpoenaed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598176 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:35:24 +0000 tororojo 598176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: interesting! would never have thought of that.</p> <p>I don't ever delete stuff unless it's junk mail; I just have a ridiculously full inbox on gmail. Which I mainly just check on my phone, anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598167 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:32:34 +0000 mlm2934 598167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: haha!! that's probably very true </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598166 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:32:07 +0000 illumina 598166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use gmail too and save everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598163 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:31:41 +0000 mrbee 598163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@runnerd: After you've been gone through a legal battle, your whole perspective on document retention changes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598161 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:30:56 +0000 mrbee 598161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If something might be subpoenaed, then I will delete it. Otherwise I tend to just archive and save old email. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598160 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:30:54 +0000 mlm2934 598160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I save almost all email from actual people - gmail has so much storage, why not? Still only using 10% after 4 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-delete-emails-from-friends-or-keep-them#post-598155 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:29:27 +0000 .twist. 598155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just a for fun poll! </p> <p>I have certain friends that I save emails from and put in a file called "friends". I try to delete most other email though (unless of course it's really important).</p> <p>Why do you save them?</p> <p>I'm not sure why I save them. I think with certain people I really cherish them and I feel bad deleting emails they've sent me! I'm a weirdo! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-164594 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:58:03 +0000 Honeybee 164594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I donated some of DD's stuff (like stuffed animals she had never played with) and threw away some stuff (any cheap, junky, plastic stuff). Then, I boxed up about 75% of what was left. Right now, she wants to play outside, anyway, so I figure we'll swap outside toys for inside toys when it gets cold again. Her birthday is coming up, and I've already asked everyone to avoid buying more toys. Some clothes or books are ok, but we're overflowing with toys! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-164314 Mon, 21 May 2012 11:27:19 +0000 purrpletulips 164314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We personally don't have any storage space so we ended up doing a hybrid. We donated the stuff that LO never showed any interest in and we didn't want to keep for the next baby (mainly stuffed things). For the larger items (swing, exersaucer) we found friends who were or had just had babies and loaned them out. By the time our next LO arrives in September and is old enough to use the item, their LO will have outgrown it. After our second is done with the items we will most likely sell them because we don't plan on having additional children. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-164110 Sun, 20 May 2012 23:30:32 +0000 lemondrop 164110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a huge attic, so I plan on storing toys for the next kid. Can you rotate toys every week or two? I usually try to pull out a different toy or two each day to try out. The nice thing with LO's is that it is a *new* toy if they haven't seen it in a little while! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-164107 Sun, 20 May 2012 23:03:29 +0000 StbHisMrs 164107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If there are some things that you both really enjoy then I say keep it. My ds is 10, I thought I was done so I sold everything once he outgrew it. I am absolutely kicking myself now, especially since a lot of the items are not made anymore and really hard to come by ($$$)...<br /> Before I sell anything besides clothes one of us has to be fixed so I know for sure ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-164059 Sun, 20 May 2012 19:36:55 +0000 Mrs. Stroller 164059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you like the toys, then I would store them in age-specific bins and rotate them out so he's getting new toys every couple of weeks. He won't remember he saw that bin of toys four months ago when they rotate back around ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-164049 Sun, 20 May 2012 19:01:37 +0000 T.H.O.U. 164049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend is having #2 about 2.5 years later and she stored EVERYTHING. I saw her unpacking stuff this weekend and I really don't want to end up like that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-163879 Sun, 20 May 2012 13:32:44 +0000 heffalump 163879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would store them. Then bring them out after a month and he'll tihnk they're new again. We're saving ours for when we decide to have baby #2, I don't want to have to buy things all over again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-163297 Sat, 19 May 2012 07:30:26 +0000 Mrs. Bee 163297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i got rid of more than 50% of Charlie's toys when I got pregnant with Olive and I have no regrets. This is a great post I read recently how it's much better for your child to have less toys:</p> <p><a href="http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2012/05/motherhood-mondays-simplicity-parenting.html" rel="nofollow">http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2012/05/motherhood-mondays-simplicity-parenting.html</a></p> <p>I'm in the middle of getting rid of more of Charlie's toys and books. Your younger one will have your older child to play with. So other than some infant toys that don't take up much space, I got rid of everything that was big. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-163295 Sat, 19 May 2012 07:30:22 +0000 Rubies 163295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would store them. I have a bunch of stuff that LO hasn't used but won't consider giving them away until I'm done having kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-store-or-get-rid-of-them#post-163294 Sat, 19 May 2012 07:28:44 +0000 Andrea 163294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would store them for the 2nd child. We have a playroom but I still don't like it to be too crowded. </p>