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=Metaphors=

(image of a cupcake pan, with a few cupcakes missing)

This is something that I taught my Grandma about email...

She was wondering what "compacting your inbox" meant. And so I explained that if you bake a pan of cupcakes and then place the pan in your refrigerator, it takes up some space in the fridge. Then, if you start eating the cupcakes one by one, but leave the pan in the fridge, it takes up the same space.

But if you take all the remaining cupcakes out, and put them in the fridge, then you've used less space.

And that's similar to what happens when you compact your inbox.