#Parent minimaliste

[origami-mama]

Comment simplifier sa vie pour vivre mieux ?

🌿 Simplifier sa vie et vivre mieux ? 🧘‍♀️ C'est possible, et c'est justement l'objet de l'interview avec Fric au Féminin !​​ 🎥 Découvrez ici comment minimalisme le peut transformer votre quotidien, vos finances 💰, et même vos relations.

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[asherenjoysbeingtransparent]

DAY FOUR: “Maximalist or Minimalist”

“Kanade’s Birthday” (2021) — Kanade Yoisaki

( @sekaitransparents )

[doulayogimama]

me babbling about nesting, essentially

I don't know how people don't find out the gender, it doesn't feel real to me until I know whether it's a girl or a boy.

I went through Sky's 0-12 month clothes because they're here in NY and my gosh, 90% of it is not stuff I'd use for baby boy. We don't have anyone else in the family that is pregnant, so I just sent a message to the family chat that the clothes will be in the attic and if anyone ever needs them, they're up for grabs. So many pieces were unused or only worn once :(

I'm so excited about my very small (to me) list of stuff on my baby registry. It's not even a registry, just a personal list because I honestly do not want a baby shower this time. I'd rather go on a weekend getaway or have something weird like a beach day with my family to celebrate baby. Just a cute picnic on the beach with a proper low table and cushions to sit on underneath umbrellas. Maybe some simple food like sushi, fruit, etc to have at the beach. And ONLY the people that I actually speak to on a yearly basis can come!! Not my moms half sister who sees me every 4 years. It makes me uncomfortable and I don't owe those people shit.

Not including MY stuff like my pump (which should be covered by insurance) essential baby needs come out to about $1500. That includes a Doona car seat + stroller, a Owlet smart sock, a bassinet, changing station, pajamas, and few other things like a bottle warmer (I didn't think it was important with Sky but I think it makes a difference). Plus one for those mini portable sanitizers for the bottles because I'm not one to run the dishwasher every day. I don't do big cribs, I'm not getting jeans for a newborn just because they are cute this time (spoiler alert: newborns live in pajamas). I have baby carriers from Sky, lots of white unused newborn onesies, some gender neutral ones, a couple of really soft bamboo pajamas. I really don't want much else besides pacifiers. My dad and Mimi will help me with the two big items without me asking (Doona and Owlet) and the rest I'd rather buy on my own or let people like my mom chip in if they ask. If anyone outside my nuclear family asks for gift suggestions: I will kindly request donations for food delivery like purple carrot, a cleaning person, or a PP Doula. I'd rather have someone's $25 go to that fund then a random TJ Maxx outfit that I probably won't even like that much.

[coridallasmultipass]

Long shitpost silly vent and conspiracy theory for funsies:

I'm really tired of UI being simplified to symbols on every website and program and app, especially on PC, but especially-especially on mobile when I click 'desktop view' on my browser. Where'd my text go? I want the text. Give me the text. I don't want to be bombarded by every site's minimalistic takes on mobile-friendly web design, and the same 5 symbols and 3 new ones. We're like three generations off from people knowing firsthand that the save icon is a floppy disk. I don't even click the save icon when I'm on PC. I don't even remember the last time I clicked one when I had the option to do anything else, because I'd rather use the text menu. Like, I use the keyboard shortcut or I click file>save. I'm not clicking a fucking modern hieroglyph in Corporation A's visual icon dialect. ('Dialect'? Icon dialect. Dialex-icon. Idk.)

I miss you, text-based internet.

I miss you, text-based PC operating system. (Windows 7. I'm using hyperbole here.)

Details and long-form content are being pushed aside by 60-second summaries and abbreviated/sanitized representations of images and ideas, by corporations dictating how the digital world should function. Also, fuck censoring words to be advertisement-friendly.

Anyway, I'm sick of deciphering what new random minimalist symbols are supposed to represent. There is a bottom line to minimalism, and right now, this is what the internet, UI in general, and web design feels like to me:

It's fucking flat.

Next thing you know, they'll take the snake out, too. The Obsolete Snake.

Then after that, in a digital world of shapeless, entirely minimalist colour, you'll have to decipher meaning from a highly specific colour used to convey a wide range of meanings depending on its digital value, and the colour shown before and after it. Let's call it hex-icon (like 'lexicon'), after the limited hex-code characters (0-6, A-F) used to comprise digital colour.

Can I call dibs on this highly specific colour as my new corporate-aesthetic-friendly minimalist username??

((Naming yourself after popular media is a trans rite-of-passage and I missed out the first time by renaming myself before I knew my gender.))

But wait, that's a highly incendiary colour!! Don't you know that #FF06B5 is associated with an anti-corporate agenda? You can't pick that colour as a name on an internet owned and operated by the censorship overlords. Dangerous ideas like that are a violation of the Terms of Service. This post cannot be monetized. Name yourself something more family-friendly. That shade of magenta is too indecent. Think of the children.

> Try again.

*record scratch*....Hol' up. You kno... You know what... I was gonna assign myself a less fruity colour, and then I realized I was about to implement some kind of colour-based naming caste system, where only certain tones are allowed as names depending on your status, and aberrant colours are disallowed due to controversy. Suddenly, the Homestuck quote I just used makes sense for the direction I was headed with Cyberpunk 2077 magenta (fuschia, AKA a royal blood colour in Homestuck) being forbidden in hexicon.

The saying was right: every so often someone does reinvent Homestuck. I just went about it from a moebius double reacharound direction. Thankfully, I have the Homestuck experience to tell me when I've arrived at the solution.

(That's enough internet for today, lmao.)

Tldr; say no to corporate user-shiterface. Don't let detail become obsolete. Consume long-form media again. Stop encouraging sanitized minimalist content. Or else I'll see you in the roof, #413612. Can't abscond, bro!

Appendix:

One last important message in hexicon for everyone. Because I know, you know, you want to know, how to say this one. It sure is a beautiful colour to display vibrantly towards the ever simplifying internet.

[thelittlebunnypawsthing]

so this evening this happened. My darling bun pooped outside her litterbox. I've asked her why, and instead of answering, Penelope is buttering me up with kisses.

a mystery for the ages.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

g-d gives his hardest battles to his most tired soldiers with the easiest access to drugs (I need to stay sober until Thanksgiving so I can get fucked up beyond recognition also because my drug usage passed concerning a long time ago)

[kkeval]

First Fishing Experience - Father and Son Moment

[kids-worldfun]

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[noisycowboyglitter]

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[robinsnest2111]

vent. sorry.

okay yeah yeah awesome got chewed out by my father for all the cleaning products "scattered all over the house"

the cleaning products my mother keeps buying when they're on sale but doesn't have any adequate space for. so I have to park them wherever they fit whenever I put away the shopping.

my cleaning products are all gathered in one spot and don't take up much space.

but still. I get chewed out for it. cool cool cool cool. this is almost worse than getting chewed out by my boss at work lol

[astrxealis]

i am so used to my pinned post i kinda don't want to change the format but i want to

[glittertimes]

I thought I was crazy for complaining about gentrification in my little insignificant suburban hometown but I was visiting my sister for a couple weeks and I just got back and my dad told me he doesn’t shop at the grocery store down the street from our house anymore because they remodeled and now everything is twice as expensive

[happy2bmyownboss]

Get rid of the socks... not just the stinky ones!

[familykombi]

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[progressivemother]

Less is more

There is a story from the Buddha's life about he, some monks, and a farmer who lost his cows. The moral of the story is that having too many cows (possessions or material objects) won't make you happy.

Sometimes, we possess a number of things, and we think that these possessions are very crucial to our happiness, our safety. But if you look deeply, you’ll see that maybe what you possess are obstacles for your happiness. If you know how to let them go, to release your cow, happiness becomes possible.

This is why I am now practicing minimalism. When I went through my things, it turned out I had many things that I have never used and never will use, therefore it doesn't have value to me. I have gotten rid of most things in my home and simplified it. I got my kids and my husband to go through their things as well. The house is feels lighter and with less clutter, comes less stress.

We don't need a lot to be happy. Material things actually get in the way.

That is why on birthdays and Christmas, we are also going to practice minimalism. The kids will only get four gifts from us; something they want, something they need, something to wear, and something to read. They each only need one gift at most from each person. Us adults only need one gift from each other and one gift from others.

We should only have what we need in life and no more.

It's still okay to want to better yourself, your family or your home; but remember to not go too far with material things.

I will do a post on minimalism soon.

#buddhism #buddha #minimalist #minimalism

[koishikei]

i feel like the only person who will complain when shit sucks, like so many ppl are just bopping around being happy little consumers meanwhile i'm like "how did infinity alpha manage to take one of my favorite visual themes and make it BORING"