diff --git a/src/database/level/sorted.js b/src/database/level/sorted.js
index b0cbcb415a..d262af89c2 100644
--- a/src/database/level/sorted.js
+++ b/src/database/level/sorted.js
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ module.exports = function(db, module) {
 		}, callback);
 	};
 
+	module.sortedSetsRemoveRangeByScore = function(keys, min, max, callback) {
+		throw new Error('not implemented');
+	};
+
 	function flattenSortedSet(set, callback) {
 		callback(null, !set.length ? [] : set.reduce(function(a, b) {
 			return (a.length ? a : [a.value]).concat([b.value]);
diff --git a/src/database/mongo/sorted.js b/src/database/mongo/sorted.js
index ead67b6115..a1dd33576f 100644
--- a/src/database/mongo/sorted.js
+++ b/src/database/mongo/sorted.js
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ module.exports = function(db, module) {
 		db.collection('objects').remove({_key: {$in: keys}, value: value}, callback);
 	};
 
+	module.sortedSetsRemoveRangeByScore = function(keys, min, max, callback) {
+		callback = callback || helpers.noop;
+		db.collection('objects').remove({_key: {$in: keys}, score: {$lte: max, $gte: min}}, function(err) {
+			callback(err);
+		});
+	};
 
 	function getSortedSetRange(key, start, stop, sort, withScores, callback) {
 		db.collection('objects').find({_key:key}, {fields: {_id: 0, value: 1, score: 1}})
diff --git a/src/database/redis/sorted.js b/src/database/redis/sorted.js
index abdd2ae435..36ef4f6c73 100644
--- a/src/database/redis/sorted.js
+++ b/src/database/redis/sorted.js
@@ -55,6 +55,16 @@ module.exports = function(redisClient, module) {
 		multi('zrem', keys, value, callback);
 	};
 
+	module.sortedSetsRemoveRangeByScore = function(keys, min, max, callback) {
+		var multi = redisClient.multi();
+		for(var i=0; i<keys.length; ++i) {
+			multi.zremrangebyscore(keys[i], min, max);
+		}
+		multi.exec(function(err) {
+			callback(err);
+		});
+	};
+
 	module.getSortedSetRange = function(key, start, stop, callback) {
 		redisClient.zrange(key, start, stop, callback);
 	};
diff --git a/src/notifications.js b/src/notifications.js
index cd1f441e00..c945331f68 100644
--- a/src/notifications.js
+++ b/src/notifications.js
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ var async = require('async'),
 				return callback(err);
 			}
 
+			var oneWeekAgo = Date.now() - 604800000;
+			db.sortedSetsRemoveRangeByScore(unreadKeys, 0, oneWeekAgo);
+			db.sortedSetsRemoveRangeByScore(readKeys, 0, oneWeekAgo);
+
 			plugins.fireHook('action:notification.pushed', {notification: notification, uids: uids});
 
 			for(var i=0; i<uids.length; ++i) {