I'm a little behind on my email right now… OK, I'm very behind on my email. After going to three gift shows back-to-back it was easy to lapse, even with so much time sitting on planes and trains. I almost hate to admit it, but I have 400 unread emails in my bin.

Every day this past week I've promised myself, "Today is the day I'm going to get caught up."

Yesterday I mentioned my situation to a colleague over lunch and she chuckled and said, "You can always file for email bankruptcy." I laughed, but she was serious!

To file email bankruptcy, she said, you send an email to everyone in your address book and tell them you've gotten so far behind that you're cleaning out all your email, and ask them to resend anything urgent.

I feel confident that I can get caught up in the next few days, but I'm glad to know there's a viable solution if this ever happens again!