Or if you are old enough, buy your own domain, (e.g. something.com), then you can have unlimited email address by setting up a catch-all account.
Mine costs me $5.88/yr, and I have all email from the domain forwarded to my gmail account. I have over 70 characters in vmk, all adults and all with legitimate email addresses, (with the luxury of checking in only one place for messages.)

Yes, I am a geek, but, it's ok with me!!