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I found this gmail tip while browsing and I thought it was mighty useful.

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign after your Gmail address, and itll still get to your inbox. Its called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Heres how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it pinkyrocks work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to pinkyrocks work@gmail.com. Then add the label work.

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
pinkyrocks nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com
pinkyrocks freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: Ive talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you dont check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give pinkyrocks mailinglist1@gmail.com as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.