I finally caved and bought more storage on Google Drive, iCloud

I held out for as long as I could. 

I transferred music files to flash drives, deleted massive photo files, and purged outdated email newsletters clogging my storage. Every email from Groupon went into the trash and was permanently deleted. No more chances to go back and "soak up savings." I was on top of it. The trash button became my friend; archiving the enemy. This is what using Google's free email service in 2018 looked like for me.

But I couldn't win — a red banner above my Gmail inbox threatened to cut off my inbound emails and I was tired of constantly deleting everything. The whole point of my personal email was to have a record of everything. I might have a newsletter addiction, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to use my email archive. Read more...