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One of my marie kondo tidbits is that one time she really did throw out everything that didnt spark joy including her screwdrivers and thought she could get away with tightening a screw with one of her favourite rulers but instead ended up snapping it in half
So when she tells people to consider how an item helps you not fuck up your shit and thats how you find joy, just know its from experience
WHY DOES THIS POST GET EVEN WORSE EVERY TIME I SEE IT
i forgot about this wierd modernist editiin of uno. #uno #modernism #minimalism
Minimalism is make-believe poverty for privileged people.
lower-income people tend to be “hoarders” and richer people are able to do more “minimalist” living spaces. if u don’t have much, you will hold onto any little thing that comes across your way. you got a new tv, but you still keep the old tv because you know things can break. you keep extra boxes of macaroni and cheese lying around because there will be a week when you don’t have money for groceries. you hold onto your stacks of books and clothes for dear life. those are your assets. physical evidence of where your money’s gone. it’s hard to get rid of it. the bare wall is terrifying when you don’t have much.
Fuck. This makes so much sense and explains so much about me. I must have inherited this from my mum.
so I’d normally put this in the tags but it’s kind of a lot so just reblog this from OP to skip my commentary. But I dogsit for a family who is clearly LOADED. Their house is immaculate. High, vaulted ceilings, wood flooring, two chandeliers in one room. These things are fancy, right ?? I really don’t know, anything that isn’t tile or 30 year old carpet seems fancy to me. It also so… bare. Everything is organized perfectly, they have no excess. Their decor is extravagant and yet minimal - it is carefully and precisely executed. Nothing that doesn’t match the aesthetic sits in their living room. I tried to replicate some of it, but it’s just not possible. I have every book I’ve ever owned, my mom keeps papers upon papers, VHSs in a dresser, how do you just get rid of these things when you know you may not have the opportunity to buy them again? How must it feel to live in such orderly quarters where everything is replaceable?
This really locked into my brain when I was reading one of the declutter your space things and it suggested getting rid of duplicate highlighters and pens. /Pens/. It suggested that you needed one or two working pens, so if you had extra you should get rid of them. That was when I realized minimalist living was /innately/ tied to having spare money, because the idea was, of course you just went out and bought the single replacement thing whenever the first thing broke. You obv. Had the time and money to only ever hold what you needed that moment, because you could always buy more later.
there’s a nice article titled “minimalism is just another boring product wealthy people can buy” by Chelsea Fagan which i feel addressed lots of my problems with minimalism, you can read it [here]
can you believe that apple took away the headphone jack, made the headphones wireless (which only hold a 5 hour charge) (and you’ll definitely lose one of them eventually) and will sell them for $159? BUT you can BUY an adapter to replace the free jack they took away, so you can use the perfectly good wired headphones you already owned. but you won’t be able to listen to anything and charge your phone at the same time.
honestly? apple is one of the greatest scammers of all time, joanne prada should be shook.
APPLE IS A MESS
lol i literally predicted apple would start picking random already-accessible technologies and compartmentalizing them to sell them like 4 years ago. when you run out of *actual* updates this is what happens
don't forget **courage**
“…really, my interest in a lot of old game music now has very little to do with “nostalgia” or any associations i had with the games, and much more to do with the way the different kinds of hardware used created interesting compromises for composers that led them making some really interesting sounds. if you can divorce the music from the game, often you will hear things or look at it in a way that you wouldn’t otherwise.
now that there aren’t really hardware limits on what a game composer can do anymore, the period of game music limited by its hardware is kind of an odd, unrepeatable blip in time. so i think it’s important to, instead of just forgetting about that moment and moving on, go back and unearth some of the interesting things that people were doing at the time, within the limitations they had.“
honestly fuck those photos where someone’s room has like one white blanket on the ground next to a plant with like two pastel sweaters on a clothes rack. welcome to my cluttered hellscape of a bedroom. there are no clean walls. clothes are erupting from every crevice. my bed has 14 pillows and none of the pillowcases match. where the hell is my representation on this damn website.
everyone should buy this tiny, amazing book
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A 280 square feet tiny house in Aurora, Oregon. More info here.
I actually liked this show quite a bit……..
I like nicki minaj’s stripped down look these days but I also liked her crazy wigs and doing the most makeup and outfits cuz it made people uncomfortable
this is a version of minimalism i can get behind.
#THIS FUCKING /SHOW/ #madoka magica
