Hit 200 unique passwords in my vault, that number scared me straight

I was cleaning out my password manager last weekend and saw the counter at 200. That's 200 different logins I've accumulated since college, and honestly I only use maybe 15 of them on a regular basis. The scary part is how many were duplicates or weak variations like the same word with a number tacked on the end. So I spent about 4 hours going through every single entry, deleting old accounts I don't even remember making, and resetting the ones I actually use with a generated passphrase. My rule now is if I haven't logged in within 2 years, it gets deleted or archived. Has anyone else hit a number like that and realized how much digital junk you're carrying around? What's your cutoff for keeping an old account alive?

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the_nina29d ago

Talking about this with my buddy Dave last month, he found 300+ saved passwords on an old laptop he hadn't touched in years. Turns out half of them were for sketchy sites he signed up for during a free trial phase, and some were just his email with different numbers at the end. He spent a whole weekend just deleting stuff, and now he keeps a Google Sheet with only 20 accounts he actually checks.