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Decide which old accounts to close
Reducing how many companies hold your data, starting with the ones you no longer use.
From the account list below, sort each into: close now, keep but secure, and keep. Weigh what the service holds about me — payment details, address, documents, messages, health or financial data — against how likely I am to need it again. A dormant account holding a saved card is a worse risk than a dormant one holding nothing. For anything in "close now": what I would lose, whether the loss is recoverable, and what to export first. For "keep but secure": the single change worth making — remove the stored card, turn on two-factor, or delete stored documents. Accounts:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Cleanup and closing. Dormant accounts, dead newsletters, and getting data deleted rather than just unsubscribing.
Related prompts
Write a data deletion requestClosing an account properly rather than just letting it sit dormant.Decide which newsletters actually earn their placeA hundred subscriptions where you genuinely read about four.Work out what to save before closing an accountThe step people skip, and regret a week later.Separate mail I need from mail I tolerateDeciding what should reach your inbox at all, versus a folder you visit deliberately.Plan retiring an old email addressAn address you have outgrown but cannot simply abandon.List every service I have an account withYou have signed up for hundreds of things over a decade and have no idea what they are.
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