#clutterbug

[tikitanaa]

Pt.1 of a little moonvision comic for my own enrichment

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yeahh i don't think i'm actually gonna finish ts, lmao

[whitneyavalon]

“The Joy You Spark” is here! Enjoy my increasingly-unhinged duet with Matthew Mercer.

[bedroom-organising]

One of the things I often find annoying when looking at tidying tips is the lack of variation. The “tidy” room always looks the same - and it’s not something I can maintain (I’ve tried). It’s not how my brain wants to work.

This is why I like the Clutterbug method. She defines four organising styles - Bee, Butterfly, Cricket, and Ladybug - that describe how a person naturally organises.

Clutterbug’s styles have two aspects: categories, and visibility. Butterflies and Ladybugs like fewer broader categories, while Bees and Crickets prefer many smaller categories. Ladybugs and Crickets want to hide their items out of sight, while Bees and Butterflies like to see their things.

The stereotypical “tidy” room that you see in magazines and the like is Cricket style - and Butterflies are really gonna struggle achieving and maintaining that. If you’re not a Cricket, ditch that magazine-perfect idea of tidy. You might be able to achieve it, but it won’t last.

According to the Clutterbug quiz, I’m a Butterfly. I prefer to see my things, not hide them. “Out of sight, out of mind” is a really easy way to forget I own something. I also struggle to put things away in designated spots for specific items, tending more towards just throwing everything into one container.

I know I have some unlearning to do with regards to how I organise my storage - I’ve grown up in a world inundated with the “everything has its place” mindset, and need to change my conscious thinking away from micro categories and into macro categories. Hopefully, grouping micros into macros will solve that particular issue.

[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.)

[golf-princess]

Two drawers of plastic containers reduced to one! I recycled 7 containers and 9 lids (they were not nice enough to donate). And some of these are now full of fresh soup for some lunches and dinners this week :)

[whitneyavalon]

I asked decluttering expert Cas from Clutterbug to judge the characters in my new music video – and I was so excited when she agreed. Watch to see her cameo!

[golf-princess]

Decluttered 4 kitchen drawers in one 20/10. Will be taking 56 utensils (last 2 photos) to Habitat for Humanity. We had 3 meat thermometers, and we rarely cook meat! So many other things we never use! And how many spatulas does a person need? All Gone! Feels great :)

[golf-princess]

Went through both recipe baskets and purged 6" of old recipes that I no longer make or never got around to trying. It's been bugging me every week and I feel so much better now!