<p>I typically use 2-4 email addresses at any given time. One is my own business email address. Often a client will assign me an email address in their system. I do have an unused gmail address. (needed it when I was taking some classes online). My oldest account is a yahoo account. I just looked at my oldest emails in the account–1998! I initially kept my personal business account separate from my yahoo account to avoid spam. That only lasted a few years. </p>
<p>How many email addresses do you use regularly and for how long? </p>
<p>Only two, one for work and one for everything else. I am getting a new one when I change my name in a couple months and I think I will keep the old one to sign up for things and whatnot to prevent spam going to my new account, my old account is getting bombarded especially with wedding planning stuff. Davids bridal gave my info out to everyone under the sun. I’m considering another to send all the bills and whatnot to which will forward to my fiance and I so we can both get them. But I will continue to only check work and home. I barely manage to keep up with two!</p>
<p>Four–two personal ones-- a Verizon that I’m transitioning away from and a gmail that was originally just for one interest of mine but has morphed into my main one.</p>
<p>Two work ones–one for each college I teach at.</p>
<p>I also have a junk one which I never use anymore but is the one that CC sends notifications to. (Sorry, CC.)</p>
<p>I don’t even cont my work email address as “mine.” I only use it for work. Otherwise I have three – my original aol account which I use for most everything, my gmail account which I use for a few specific activities, and my yahoo account, which I almost never use.</p>
<p>One for work (just the general email for our retail business), one for personal stuff, and one I never look at that I use when I have to provide an email to register for something for the moment but know I’ll never want to see anything they might send.</p>
<p>I’ve lost count, a long time ago. Especially since I often use throwaways (like mailinator.com) for signing up for stuff where I don’t want spam. On the business end of stuff, there are multiple aliases that lead to me, either by myself or as part of a team. (Think of the emails such as webmaster@ or sales@ or info@ – plus because I run websites I also have to be reachable at abuse@ for multiple domains). </p>
<p>I only actually use 2 email accounts – business and personal – everything else is set up to forward to one or the other, except for the temporary, throwaway emails. </p>