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One of the chores I have to do each January the first is to gather up all the previous year's emails and place them, month by month, in a folder marked with the previous year's name. So this morning I added a folder "2005" to each email category and moved the folders for each month of 2005 into it (I use Eudora). Then I created a new folder "January 2006" in each category.

I confess: I'm an email packrat.

For certain mailing lists, I have all emails dating back to 1996, sorted by month and year. Others I just place in a year folder, not bothering with the month.

Why do I do this? In one case, it helps with my US tax return (Currency Converter). In other cases, it's helped me with work situations. Most of the time, however, it does nothing. The emails sit there, clogging up my computer: I have 1.64 GB of email on the disk.

Will I stop? Not until they pry the mouse out of my cold dead hands.