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[bonduelle]

Apartment hacks masterpost

Kitchen

How to clean up kitchen (particularly the sink, burnt pots and small aplliances)

How to take care of kitchen stuff so that it lives longer

10 commandments of a clutter-free kitchen

Organizing kitchen mini masterpost

5 things to do in the kitchen before you go to bed

What is soapy bowl and why it’s awesome

How to organize your fridge (also here, here and here)

Thins you should know about your fridge

Adding more storage space in a tiny kitchen

Cleaning

Lots of cleaning tutorials and tips. And some more

How to clean up pantry

How to make your house look cleaner than it really is

How to wash pillows

Cleaning the bathroom

How to clean the nastiest places (and get rid of bad smells, etc.)

Floor-to-celling guide to spring cleaning

Recaulking your bathtub

Cleaning grout

How to dispose of toxic waste

Cleaning the medicine cabinet

How to make chores more fun

You mustn’t skip these chores, but you can delay these if you’re busy

Easily forgotten things that you should clean/replace

Why you need a catch-up day

Small cleaning tasks to do in under 15 minutes (also here)

Looking for a flat/moving

First apartment checklist

Where too look during an apartment hunt (and some more tips)

Negotiate these things with your landlord

What to do first in a new place

What do clean before moving out

How not to get crazy during moving flats

How to downgrade to a smaller place

Organisation, storage

10 habits for better home organisation

How to store off-season items

10 storage ideas for small spaces (more here)

Storage secret weapons

How to organise your closet

Things to do before twice-yearly closet switchout

How to store and maintain your sweaters

Decluttering

Why it feels great

How to get rid of clutter

How to declutter (not only a flat)

What needs to be thrown away from your flat

How to let go of the things you no longer need

Things you own too many of; you can throw away these too

Decuttering the bathroom

Decluterring masterpost

Decorating

Projects for every room in your home/flat

Add style to your home

DIY decorating ideas

How to use negative space

4 common decorating mistakes and how to avoid them

Questions to ask yourself before buying something new

How to choose furniture that’ll be easier to clean

Season-specific tips

Things to do before the cold season

Household hacks for winter

Preparing for Christmas

Green thumb 101

How to take care of succulents

Never kill a plant again

Living alone / Sharing a flat

How not to be lonely when living alone

12 things you can only do when home alone

What you learn by living alone

Things you learn while sharing a flat

What to pack when leaving for a dorm

How to seamlessly share a kitchen (or a flat in general)

Safety issues to discuss with flatmates

Benefits of living with strangers

And also how to turn a house into a home

[livsteas]

a glimpse of my desk set up 🧸🌿

[loudemic]

this summer is about getting a better mindset 🧠

[lawyer-wannabe]

summer studies 🔆

revising yoga anatomy 🦵🏼🫁

[doubledteabaglife]

Can’t decide which book to read. So I brought both.

[gushuwa-deactivated20241004]

07.08.22 - good morning wonders ✨ today’s plan is to 1. study 2. clean kitchen and guess what 3. find cat (i suspect she’s under the fridge)

[peanutpalace-deactivated2023011]

So many idiots have masters degrees maybe I could be the next

[boligrafo-estudios]

even though there's still about three weeks before the semester starts, i'm moving twice in that span, so it feels like it's coming up a whole lot quicker. i'm excited for this semester! i'm taking some really cool classes from some professors i love and i've been an ocean away from everyone since january, so i can't wait to see folks again.

i bought a planner yesterday and have begun setting up my notion, so it seemed about time to bring back my favorite activity: making a color scheme i do not need! but i think it's really fun and vibrant which is a needed change from the muted tones i've been using the past couple years (though they're so gorgeous).

this will be what i'm calling my *bonus year* of university as i was supposed to graduate this past year, but decided to move to spain instead lol, and i've sort of got free rein over what i do since i've got so few credits left, so this should be fun!

[boligrafo-estudios]

17.6.22

making my way north, reading some poetry and admiring the english countryside

🎶 Born on a Train - Samia 📖 Las grandes mujeres - Alfonsina Storni

[kadywicker]

okay i’m curious bc my parents were relatively young having me but idk what age difference is “normal” between parents and kids as i’ve met people with plenty of variations. so if you want, reblog this and tag (don’t comment) how old your parents were when they had you. my mom was 25 and my dad was 21. 

[boligrafo-estudios]

hi hi hi hi! how did you decide what to study in uni?

I’ve switched it up several times. I’m someone who relies on gut feelings when I make decisions, so everything is always based on what “feels right”, and I haven’t gone wrong so far!

I came into university as a political science major planning on minoring in Spanish, international studies, and chemistry, but that changed pretty much right off the bat...

The number of Spanish classes I was planning on taking was almost enough for a major, so I decided you know what? Sure! I have yet to take a bad class and now I would not trade Spanish for the world.

International studies and chemistry fell by the wayside after I either took classes I hated or realized they just didn’t offer that many classes I was interested in. 

I spent a good year and a half as a political science and Spanish linguistics double major, but this semester I really wasn’t enjoying one of the classes for political science and after taking inventory I realized I had taken all the interesting classes I wanted to take in the department. I had been keeping political science around because when you want to work in politics it’s like the major to get, but as someone who’s also seen the other side of hiring, people look for people who don’t fit the mold too. Not everyone has to go to GW for political communication.

While I was dropping political science, I happened upon the Caribbean & Latin American studies department and realized not only did they have a certificate program that was comprised almost entirely of electives (so long as they have an aspect relating to the area), but I was already halfway to fulfilling the requirements. To begin with all I’ve ever really wanted to do is take a billion classes about Latin American politics and history, so it’s been an absolute dream.

I hope my personal experience helps you out some how. When in doubt, listen to your gut and go for what makes you happy, not what you think you have to do. You’ll find your way.

p.s. I’ve switched over to @boligrafoestudios so go follow me over there!!

[boligrafo-estudios]

i’ve moved! go find me @boligrafoestudios

finally switched my main blog to my studyblr -- please go follow me @boligrafoestudios!

[boligrafo-estudios]

25 April 2021 [4/100]

i’ve got a lot due today and a lot to do today. a little freaked out, but i think i can do it.

today’s priority: country studies practicum today’s mood: the novelist today's tunes: sensory overload days left of this term: 11

[sdsd204]

study moods by time

the 1 am cramming session:

drooping eyes, scattered papers, rock music to keep you awake, a pencil in one hand, coffee in another, adrenaline pumping cause you have to ace that test tomorrow

the 6 am sunrise:

light creeping through your window, snuggling in bed with some green tea as you review your notes from class, lofi playing in the background, a warm vanilla candle lit

the 1 pm grind:

computer open with 10000 tabs of notes, immersed in the subject you’re reading, finishing things on your to-do list, blasting pop to keep your speed, stomach aching for some lunch

the 7 pm push-through:

physically & mentally exhausted from the day you had, finishing homework, reading what you learned in class one more time, 80s music playing as you’re watching the sun set

to everyone who’s looking for some study motivation- you got this! just push through the first few days and it will become a habit and trust me, it’ll all be worth it when you get that A :)

[germanellewoods]

Study Moods

Some of my favourite study moods! I saw them some time ago but can't find the source anymore, so if you are the one who came up with them, message me so I can give you credit!

The Fashion/Design Student: Perfectly done up/down hair, silk night clothes or cashmere jumper, fluffy socks, scrawled messy notes and drawings, laptop open for research, expensive pen, frothy coffee in delicate white china cup, perfect manicure, perfectly planned timetable on separate piece of paper, Vogue.com open for breaks

The Carrie Bradshaw: Wearing something cosy and comfortable, take out coffee or can of coke in ice, box of half eaten Chinese food at side with chopsticks sticking out, adorned with pearl necklace, at desk with laptop, organised mess, black and white film waiting in another tab for after completion of work

The Hermione Granger: Glass of water or herbal tea, bowl at side with snacks, lots of open books, sat at a desk in the common room, neat notes with pretty handwriting, leather bound diary, hair thrown up, spearmint scented candle, enjoys ambient noises of her environment or classical music, earl grey tea, highly methodical and leaves no detail to chance

The Parisian: Coffee fresh from the coffee shop around the corner, bakery recently collected, blazer with whatever she just went out wearing or pyjamas for comfort, messy hair and perfect makeup, perfectly manicured hands with Chanel nail polish, politics book at side for breaks, leather journal, lined paper and biro, busy and important, thinking about a guy

Have a nice Sunday my loves!

[kc-s-e]

study moods for my favourite aesthetics

(what we're not going to do is mention that it's been nearly a year since my last study mood haha hello)

dark academia : trying to tea stain your notes and failing miserably, the ink from a fountain pen leaking onto the desk, the perfectly justified excitement you feel at opening an old book, burning your favourite candle all the way and crying because it was expensive, being confused as to how you get ink stains everywhere, the permanent crease between your brows, forgetting about your tea and grimacing when you drink it cold an hour later, dressing up pretentiously to go to the library because it's not a phase mom

cottagecore : playing bakery ambience YouTube videos in the background for the aesthetic, wishing you could be in a studio ghibil movie instead of lockdown, pressing flowers between book pages, getting easily distracted from your work because of the sun, buying five planners at the beginning of the year and never using them, trying to convince yourself that if you study outside the wind won't blow your pages around this time, listening to Disney songs whilst studying

minimalist : wanting coffee on an iv drip, misplacing that one specific pen that flows just right, the tapping of shoes against the floor in the library, resenting your teachers for sending so many emails until you have more emails than texts, nibbling on a snack and then forgetting about it for the rest of the day, the smooth line a highlighter makes, trying to drink only water then giving up, closing all of the browsers open on a computer after finishing an essay, the excitement at buying new stationery

art hoe : fiddling with your pen when you can't concentrate, the slight smudge of writing on a page, deciding studying on your bed is a good idea, rustling papers as you search for that one specific thing, three cups on the go in varying stages of being finished, staying up late because you forgot one thing due tomorrow because you were finishing stuff due weeks ahead of schedule, putting your pen behind your ear for the aesthetic, eraser shavings littering your desk, sunlight obscuring your view when reading

girly : taking multiple photos of your study notes and not posting a single one, highlighting everything on the page because it's all important, trying to study in silence, giving up and listening to your playlist instead, secretly smelling sharpies, spending more time organising and planning than studying, the clacking of a keyboard, eating all of your study snacks before you get started, writing notes in the margins of textbooks but never fiction books, studying in groups and failing massively

- KC

[binary-aesthetics]

// April 2021

My fav song atm, a good book, pink cryptography flashcards and ofc my all time fav study buddy.