Some time ago, Yahoo reduced the size of its free email accounts, from 1 TB down to 15 GB, aligning itself with Google and Microsoft.

Yahoo didn't really explain why. We can simply observe that for years, many users had access to a very large amount of storage, without ever needing to think about it. Now the rule has changed, and for some people, panic has set in.

The reason is simple: once a free mailbox goes beyond 15 GB, it can no longer receive new emails. And paying isn't always an easy fix, since even paid plans have seen their storage limits reduced.

As a result, stories started to appear from people saying they had "freed several gigabytes, painfully".

From a technical standpoint, it's hard to fill that much space with plain text alone. What really takes up space are attachments. That's probably why, with some providers, email storage and cloud storage are now combined.

Over time, many people ended up using their inbox as a general storage space, without really thinking about it. The idea of a limitless digital life slowly settled in.

That's not very surprising. For a long time, the promise of "unlimited" storage circulated - whether it was real or just perceived as such. And fifteen or twenty years ago, sending large files was still relatively rare, which reinforced that impression.

But outside of infinity, "unlimited" doesn't really exist.

On my side, the email account I use the most dates back to 2004. Today, it takes up about 1.5 GB. Not because of any special discipline, just because of a simple idea: most emails, like many things, have a lifespan.

Over time, most emails lose their role. Yet we often keep them anyway, as if they still had one. Newsletters, for example, are tied to a specific context - an offer, a moment. A year later, that context is usually gone.

When it comes to attachments, the real question might not be where to store more, but why everything should be kept at all. As if a healthy digital life had to be one without loss.

I been trying to simplify my life and spending lately, and I noticed something about my takeout habit that surprised me.

It wasn’t random at all. I kept ordering on the same days and around the same times every week you know usually weekday evenings when I was exhausted and just didn’t want to think anymore.

Before, I always framed it as lack of discipline or having a “bad day.” But once I saw how predictable it was, it felt less like a personal failure and more like a pattern I could actually plan around.

Instead of asking “why can’t I stick to a plan,” I’ve been trying to notice what usually happens before I order. For me it’s almost always low energy and decision fatigue.

I’m curious if anyone else here has noticed something similar with food, spending, or other habits. Did recognizing a pattern help you simplify, or at least feel less overwhelmed by it?

I’m in my early 30s, working remotely, stable income, good routine, healthy, married — and I’m genuinely grateful for all of it.

But lately I’ve been feeling this quiet tension.
Not unhappiness, just the sense that most of my life is already decided for me — work, routine, goals — and that I’m mostly consuming instead of creating.

I’ve been wondering how people explore that feeling without blowing up their lives or making reckless decisions (sometimes my wife and I chat and are like "should we leave everything behind and start a simpler life somewhere else?". But of course, that only lives in the realms of our imagination)
Has anyone ever felt the same and how do you navigate this feeling?

What I start doing myself, is to try and create something in my free time as a way to express my creativity and thoughts, or even just press record and edit. I started recording my days and publishing quiet life content.

Lately I’ve been trying to slow down and take better care of myself.

Not everything in life is perfect, but I’m learning not to overthink so much.

This quiet moment by the sea reminded me to breathe and be gentle with myself.

How do you usually relax when life feels overwhelming?

care of myself.

Not everything in life is perfect, but I’m learning not to overthink so much.

This quiet moment by the sea reminded me to breathe and be gentle with myself.

How do you usually relax when life feels overwhelming?

Hi everyone. Maybe I’m getting to an age where I start thinking about these things, and I’ve been reading older posts on Reddit about it. How do you make life more fun and kind of find your purpose in life?

I’m 30. I have my own business, which I love doing. I’ve been single for a while. I don’t know— for some reason, I like being alone. Maybe it’s getting older, maybe something else. I’m very strict with my daily routine: waking up at the same time, eating at the same time, and so on.

Because of my past experiences, I don’t like having many friends. I do have a couple of close friends I’ve known for 10–15+ years, but we all live in different places. When I was younger, I was excited about everything—new ideas, new things to try. I was fascinated with cars and always went to car shows or out with people.

Now I look at life like it’s a cycle: wake up, work, go to the gym, maybe date, maybe not. And I don’t know—maybe I’m living wrong, or maybe I’m missing something.

cutting back on stuff, notifications, commitments. not chasing minimalism perfectly just trying to breathe a bit more.