#clutterbugs

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

I was tagged by @clutterbugs & @summerwave to share my January receiptify (i love these) so 🫶💕💜

i am not immune to newjeans….

now who am I gonna tag….. @permanentreverie @raplinenthusiasts @captainassmerica @thornedswan @leesjieuns @senor-hoberto (no pressure ofc but ily and I wanna see what you’re listening to) 💕💕

[kimchokejin]

music tag games 🎶

is it cheating to put them all in one post when everyone’s doing it?

thank you to everyone who tagged me i had a full day’s worth of music recs to listen to and bts songs to revisit happy hondadays to ME!

game #1: using your spotify top 100 playlist, shuffle 10 songs and tag 10 people.

thank you @cordiallyfuturedwight @wistfulocean and @seoksao​ for the tag! 💕

i will give the number they were on my list as well

99. Jackie Onassis by Sammy Rae & The Friends

51. Wild Roses by Jack Van Cleaf

73. Stick Season by Noah Kahan

92. New Shapes (feat. Christine and the Queens and Carolin Polachek) by Charli XCX

80. First Thing to Go by Hayley Williams

70. Mic Drop (Steve Aoki Remix) - Full Length Edition by BTS

88. religion (u can lay your hands on me) by Shura

63. No Blueberries by DPR IAN, DPR LIVE, CL

89. Lights by BTS

8. Vibez by ZAYN

game #2 (sponsored by kim taehyung): 💛 choose an artist you like and use the name of their songs to answer this as close to the truth as possible!

tagged by @cordiallyfuturedwight @jiminsproof @blueside-hobi @wistfulocean @seoksao​ thank you you guys are so creative these were so fun to read!

name of the artist: Halsey (it was working too well i had to go for it)

what is your gender: I am not a woman, I’m a god (“i’m god” - kim taehyung)

describe yourself: Ashley (you don’t need to be entertained. i’m entertaining myself)

how do you feel: Alone (but in a good way, an “i needed this” way 😌)

if you could go anywhere, where would it be: Roman Holiday

describe your best friend: Darling 🥰

your favourite time of day: 3am

if your life was a tv show, what would it be called: Still Learning

what is life to you: Hurricane, Heaven in Hiding

relationship status: Bad at Love 😬

what do you fear: Strangers (”i’m a little shy” - kim taehyung), Devil in Me (”i’m a bad boy” - kim taehyung)

game #3: share your top 5 current songs

tagged by @clutterbugs thank you emma!!! i feel like i get to use the free space in scrabble

1. Kiss in My Heart by Junk Fujiyama

i discovered this song a while back on a city pop playlist i think? and it’s been stuck in my head recently (even before indigo!) so i’ve been playing it. it’s just a fun happy song, it sounds like the artist is smiling as he’s singing it

2. ILLELLA by MAMAMOO

another super fun song and i didn’t think it was possible but i am gayer because of it. i have so many feelings about this i will have to hold myself back but i am v i b r a t i n g something’s about to break

3. girl like me by Blessing

this song is acoustic but i think also r&b influenced? i like how the lyrics are somewhat specific but the insecurity is she’s talking about is still super relatable to a lot of people and the singer’s voice is kind of unique

4. complex (demo) by Katie Gregson-MacLeod

this song is just kinda heartbreaking tbh at the end of the day it’s your typical woman trying to “save” a man who's too far gone to spare her a second thought story but the vocals really carry the emotion across in a way i don’t hear all the time so i think it’s worth a listen if you...want to feel sad

5. Ketchum, ID by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus

i have been in a folksy mood lately and i think a few julien baker/phoebe bridgers/lucy daucus songs came up in my listening and that reminded me about this album. this is my favorite song from it. i think the line “i am never anywhere anywhere i go, when i’m home i’m never there long enough to know” is just really hitting for me rn? i also can’t get over how this is the last song on the album they ended the whole album with

BONUS GAME! i wasn’t tagged in this but i wanted to share this while i’m here in case anyone was interested in doing this for themselves. if you have spotify this bot will judge you for your music taste. it’s like the anti-spotify wrapped. this is what they had to say about mine:

i will tag @joon-rkive, @cheekyquokka, @mutedstring​, @jinsquishes​, @senor-hoberto​ and anyone who tagged me in one game but hasn’t been tagged in one of the others (does that make sense?). no pressure just if any of the games interest you 💕 feel free to ignore me!!!

[itsallaboutzayn]

for the spotify wrapped ask game: 5, 20, 59, 67 and 94 😊

Emma my darling, hii 🥰🥰

5 - Zayn - Tightrope

20 - Jeff Satur - Why Don't You Stay

59 - Dino d'Santiago ft. Djodje - Lá Fora

67 - Zé Neto & Cristiano - Melhor ser uma saudade

94 - James Arthur - Maybe

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send me a number from 1 to 100 and i’ll tell you which song it is on my spotify wrapped

[94ishlove]

hey inge! 😊 for the music ask game you just reblogged: 1, 7, 15 and 28

Hi Emma! Thank you for sending these! 💕

1: A song you like with a color in the title Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton - Big Yellow Taxi

7: A song to drive to Taeyeon ft. Verbal Jint - I (I don't 'drive' so this is me on my bike lmao)

15: A song that is a cover by another artist Amy Winehouse - Valerie (I think that that was a cover?)

28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love G-Dragon - That XX

Send me music asks!

[shutthedord]

Storage hack: use a stuffed animal net (the kind they sell for children's rooms) to keep bedsheets in, rather than shoving them in the closet or spending time folding them.

(If you want to make it look nice, these nets come in other colors and also in macrame, or you could actually bother folding them before putting them in. Someone who isn't me can make that aesthetic Instagram/Pinterest post, because I'm not doing it.)

[nvrcmplt]

Topside - Rustic Woodland Cabin

Run down, rotten in some planks and obviously seen better days. There are a few dark patches on the wood, stained and unwashed - rumours speak of it being blood. Wingates doesn't deny, if one would tilt their hand and move aside a bush that overgrows the corner, they'll see that it forms a vague body shape against its surface so they wouldn't be wrong.

Windows, small and tinted to reflect the outside out, but see-through from within. A door that seemed feeble, reinforced with every lock available, but not just man-made. Runic links, Latin chains, rosary blessed locks. Nothing that wasn't out of Wingate's reach for his own protection.

A porch that holds one chair and three small tables, the contents on each often changing but not so much. One has a spit-bucket that's filled with small bones. Another is covered in torn carpet pieces and often used to be a surface for cleaning his weapons on hand. A whetstone is upon such surface, cleaned and visibly still in use. The last table is covered in blocks of different wood and a knife block that houses whittling blades.

The pillars have hooks bolted to its face, often hanging fresh kills of his morning. If they just happen to look like a mangled wolf's head, no one questions it much. Sometimes it's a leg of sheep, even fresh sausages for the dogs, from the mart.

At the end of his small hilled pathway's a bin - filled with carved goods. Those he leaves for the kids that run back and forth under their parents eyes. He isn't far from civilization, but he is ways away in the same breath. Those passing in cart and horse often get his cabin in sights before the village he knows a few miles out. He can see their city just over the trees and they can see his firepits in return. He often sculpted bowls and cups for them - it's a free for all to grab trinket. Sometimes a wooden doll can be found in there.

Beneath his home however, is where he keeps his life hidden aside.

From behind his cabin, he can enter a completely different world. Crueller and colder, it's a hellhole that has no heating. Just pure concrete laced with silver bars and mixed in iron. Ten foot deep his rooms go, a house beneath a house - however not a living space for any sane being.

Whilst it's comical to think of it as a doom bunker, it's worse. The furthest room is a furnace ( red bed ), used to burn the bodies of the dead, supernatural - old and newly turned. It's also his smelting room where he makes his own weaponry - that of which line every single piece of wall he holds. From hand-axes, to stakes, to sharpened pens. To the finest of leathers, to metal buckles for his belts. He misses nothing in his time here and takes care in lining things up on his wall storage.

Long corridors that smell of flora, nice to the human nose, but irritants to faefolk. Ceilings bare of stimulus, instead hanging hard white lights that hurt the eye after a while of being under there. Furniture is scarce, little and minimal in tables, but plentiful of work benches. Nothing seemingly out of place but nothing completely tidy.

Concrete walls that are five foot deep either side, his underground bunker holds nothing but the stories of a man that knows how to kill, how to remove every morsel of a being that comes to his territory and knows how to reinstall the fear in species that think themselves without it.

[authenticityacctability]

Sometimes ya gotta get real with yourself about stuff. Like.. my craft room… is half hoarded. I got real honest with myself about that today and I have been working on it.

Things to note if you’re a fellow ADHDer with a similar issue:

There is a lady on YouTube who posts under the username Clutterbug who explains there are different types of organizers, there’s bees, butterflies, grasshoppers, etc. if you are organizing your stuff the wrong way it may be half the issue.

Spoiler alert, I’ve been trying to organize the wrong way.

- the way my brain works, if it is inside a box or bin (unless it’s clear) I forget it’s there.

Therefore, I had tons of boxes and bins and kept trying to sort my stuff that way. This only got me duplicate items and frustrated.

I am going for a more open organization where everything is visible. Especially the things I want to use.

I can already tell this will be a game changer.

However, it is eye opening to see the amount of bins and organization things I attempted to use that just don’t work.

I will be hauling much of it off to goodwill because WOW.

Making time for me again is also liberating. I can tell I just put things in the room thinking “someday” bc life, and school, and kids.. and guess what, someday wasn’t ever coming. I needed to make space and time TODAY.

It’s really easy to get overwhelmed and shove tasks off. But I’ve been starting to get more deliberate about putting me first, even in small doses.

I want to see if this also impacts my tendency to hoard things. Perhaps I can still use some bins that aren’t clear as long as they are properly labeled and macro organized (rather than micro).

Anyway, that’s just my ramble of the day.

[kat-nevayra]

I want this to be meeee

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[happy2bmyownboss]

Vintage Homeschool Hacks

I love all things vintage… that’s why I thought these were so neat. I did know quite a few of them but some were new to me so I thought I share them… You’ll have to go to the Clutterbug website but it doesn’t cost anything to get the free download, if you are interested: Continue reading Vintage Homeschool Hacks

[fixxxd]

messy girl-thing desk

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

hey kayla 😊 for the spotify wrapped ask game: 24, 41, 70 and 101

hi emma!! :) <3

24. daylight - harry styles 41. love maze - BTS 70. call it what you want - Taylor Swift 101. fake love - BTS

send me a number between 1-101 and i'll give you that song on my 2022 wrapped! <3

[shopping490490]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165811921598 #wendys #playskool #glo #friend #clutterbug #worm #figurine #toy #forsale #gift #holiday #christmas #toys #collectibles #musthave #checkitout https://linktr.ee/shopping490490 #ebay #mercari #shopify #etsy #poshmark #bonanzamarket #twitter #tumblr #facebook #instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CltKY0KO-RJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[itsallaboutzayn]

hey esme! hope you're doing well 😊 for the music ask game you just reblogged: 5, 11 and 23

Hiiii Emma 🥰🥰

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD - right now, i'll say "Keep Me Up" by B.I 💕

11: A song that you never get tired of - first in my head is "Tightrope" by Zayn 💕

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to - oh... hmm... 🤔 well the first one i remember is "Black" by Dave. I love the lyrics 👏🏽

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MUSIC ASK

[hillbillyoracle]

For those with home related New Years Resolutions:

I’ve been a disabled homemaker for 5 years now so I wanted to share the resources that have helped me take our home from complete chaos to reasonably functional and enjoyable.

If you’re not functioning...

If you’re constantly tripping over things and getting injured, eating food that makes you sick, dealing with pests in the home, and struggling to complete basic tasks like feeding, clothing, and bathing yourself, then you should start with...

KC Davis aka StruggleCare aka DomesticBlisters

TikTok

Book

Podcast

Website

I recommend KC Davis’s stuff with a big heaping dose of “keep what works and leave what doesn’t.” She’s one of the few people I’ve seen talking about compassionate care focused on maintaining a level of personal functioning rather than maintaining a home. Her stuff has been very helpful to me during some very challenging times. 

I think her some of her best work is probably her videos on the 5 step tidying process, the ones on setting up bedside hygiene and food kits, and the ones on dealing with DOOM (Didn’t Organize Only Moved) boxes. 

That being said she has a tendency to use neurotype as a shield for not reckoning with other dynamics in a situation (gendered, narcissism, etc) when asked for advice by viewers which can lead to this “all people with neurodivergence are good” vibe which I find off putting (especially as an autistic person). I mention it because her bleh stuff was all I was coming across and I missed out on her good stuff for a while. It’s worth picking through though. 

Her book is a little better on the whole. 

If you’re functioning but still very overwhelmed...

If you can complete your daily activities of living pretty regularly but you’re still losing papers you need, rebuying items you didn’t realize you had, or looking around your home at a mess that feels impossible to clean, then check out...

Dana K White aka A Slob Comes Clean

YouTube

Website

Podcast

Books

I love Dana K. White’s stuff. Honestly, I recommend her to every level on this list but I think she probably shines brightest in this category. 

Her 5 step decluttering process is pure fucking gold. It’s a decluttering process that doesn’t rely on feelings at all - really helpful for those with trauma or alexthymia generally. She has multiple videos explaining it and even more where you can watch her go step by step with someone over the course of an hour and make a huge dent in some very overwhelming mess. Its the process I’ve used to go through over 50 moving boxes to declutter so we could fit in this much smaller space we moved to in April. 

Her day to day cleaning advice is also excellent. Her concept of dishes math has really helped me make decisions about what chores to focus on when I’m low energy. Her 14 Days to Opening Your Front Door series is amazing if you’re having to host for a given occasion but your home is a wreck. 

If you’re not painfully overwhelmed by your stuff but there’s still a lot of friction in your home...

If your stuff doesn’t overwhelm you but your home still doesn’t feel that good to be in, you’re still not finding things when you need to or it’s taking you a long time to find them, you create homes for things but they look terrible or they never seem to stick, then you’d love...

Cassandra Aarssen aka Clutterbug

YouTube

Books

Website

Podcast

Clutterbug types were kind of a game changer for me. It’s what really opened my eyes to why the systems that worked for me did not work for my partner. She is a Bee - lots of small categories that are all very visible - and I am a ladybug - big bucket categories that aren’t visible. When I reorganized our space according to the compromise between our types, Butterfly - big categories and very visible - all of a sudden the systems just worked so much better. There were many fewer fights sparked by things not getting put away or not being able to find things. So I really recommend her videos on the different types and examples of each. 

Quick word of warning, she does have regular videos about diet and exercise that I personally find pretty triggering to my disordered eating habits so I’m not subscribed to her and just check her channels every now and then so it’s easier to skip over videos where that might be a topic she talks about. 

Cliff Tan aka Dear Modern

TikTok

YouTube

Website

Book

Cliff Tan’s work is the most recent of these resources that I’ve come across but holy shit I cannot recommend it enough. 

Because my parents didn’t originally intend on my partner using the room she wound up using, there’s simply not space to keep some of the furniture and items in there anywhere else. Meaning she just kind of has to keep a fair bit of junk in there. But after watching (read: binging) the Dear Modern YouTube channel and seeing him completely change spaces by moving furniture around, I redid my partners room over the course of about 2 hours and it’s a completely different room. Way more comfortable and she’s already mentioned she’s getting much better sleep. 

So I really really recommend his stuff. Sometimes what you really need isn’t new stuff but just rearranging what you already have. 

If you’re pretty content with your home but want to streamline the process of caring for it...

If your home is pretty functional but regular tidying, deep cleaning, and maintenance tasks specifically keep falling through the cracks, then you might like...

FlyLady System

Website

The Secret Slob - YouTube

Diane in Denmark - YouTube

There are lots of systems out there for house keeping but I’ve yet to try or see one that seems to do better than FlyLady for me. Since with my illness my energy varies wildly, I don’t necessarily do things when her system recommends but I do them according to the priority her system ascribes to them as I’m able. 

FlyLady is a notoriously convoluted website so I really recommend learning from a secondhand source. The Secret Slob and Diane in Denmark are my favorites. 

Maintenance Lists

This Old House

There a lots of maintenance lists out there and honestly finding one and doing what you can is better than nothing. I personally like the ones from This Old House because they’re broken up into annual, seasonal, monthly, and some weekly tasks - which are essentially priority categories, similar to FlyLady. I’ve linked the winter one here but there are many others to pick through depending on what you want to work on. 

Bonus: Paper Clutter

My System

Link

This is what I’ve arrived at after years of experimentation. It’s an amalgam of a few different ideas from different systems in one place. I keep mind on my fridge but put yours where ever you’re dumping paper anyways. If you’re in a room or live in a car/backpack - I have ideas on how to organize it for those in this post too. 

Sunday Basket

YouTube Video

The Minimal Mom’s Video

She’s in Her Apron Video

Need something a little more robust? The Sunday Basket is probably be best version of a paper (and other stuff) system I’ve seen. Got something that needs dealt with? Chuck it in the Sunday Basket. The creator also has videos on long term paper storage ideas if that’s something you need as well. But her videos usually run an hour long so I recommend starting with either the Minimal Mom’s video or She’s in Her Apron’s video. 

Bonus: Digital Clutter

PARA System/Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte

YouTube Channel

Website

Book

Essential Video

The branding on this system can be very productivity tech wonk which is off putting to me but when I finally started hearing what was at the core of it and applying it - my digital life was changed. I’ve linked my absolute favorite video he’s done here. Ignore the bit about it being the last in the series, most of us are already using some note app and if you like it you can always go back and watch the rest. But just applying what’s in that video to your digital systems will make things easier to find. 

Hope this helps someone out there! 

[neotomiccccc]

I made a ponysona!! His name is Orion :)

Clutterbug on the second image belongs to the loveliest of lovelies

[gigi-journaling]

🎀 Anti-Consumption in Journaling 🎀

-by a stationery lover/blogger, pt. 2

💛 Thank you @maldemer for inspiring this post! 💛

Love elaborate maximalist journal spreads but want to improve your consumption habits? I’m here to help!

Are you going for a journal with a lot of stickers and washi tape with minimal writing? Is your main goal creating collages with your stationary? Just want a pretty way to showcase your stickers?

Opt for a smaller journal! Reduce the visual space your working with to reach that maximalist/clutterbug 🐞 look with less materials.

I recommend refillable binder journals, it’s one reusable cover and you can save your old pages by tying them together with ribbon or save them as loose pages.

I recommend sizes A6, A7, M5/A8👇

Need to Fill a lot of space? Let’s Talk Materials

Keep your packaging! I have a box of cute images and patterns I’ve cut from miscellaneous packaging to glue in my journal. If you’ve bought stationery recently, chances are the packagings are also pretty enough to save!

Free souvenirs! Going somewhere fun? Save a receipt (a favorite of mine to remember snacks I ate, or the date/time), a ticket, a map, a brochure, things you can collect from your outing that come at no cost to you.

Collect from nature! Have a separate book thick enough to press pretty flowers from your yard, your daily walk, the park, your hike, etc. just be careful not to touch something poisonous. You should have an on going collection of pressed flowers you can choose from to fill the space.

Junk mail! Make collages from newspapers, envelopes, flyers. Cut the individual letters to use or full words to string together a poem. Or cut fun shapes to make art.

Doodles! Not an artist? That’s okay! Make your doodles with cheap color pencils, ball point pens, crayons for texture! Messy is cute and endearing!

Thrifting! So many books for cheap from cooking, nature, poetry, novels, children’s books. Get your scissors and start snipping! Look for trinkets like buttons, ribbons, fabric scraps, small beads that you can glue

Creating visual weight! Chances are you have different page styles lying around, mix patterns, textures, colors. Is your journal dotted? Glue sections of graph, blank, or line paper to create visual interest. Received a gift lately? Tissue paper looks cute!

When buying stationery, buy from small artists when you can! Many artists have online shops and/or physical markets. It may be pricier than buying from companies, but you can guarantee the art/design is not stolen, and that the artist is being paid fairly for their work.

I went ahead and created a journal spread using some of the advice above. This is pocket journal with everything being pulled from scrap paper, junk mail, and some markers. Ignoring that I completely forgot what cucumbers looked like for a hot minute:

Here’s my journal spread!