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How to Declutter Your Digital Photos

How to Declutter Your Digital Photos

We use photos as conduits for our memories. A photo is literally a snapshot of a moment; when we’re feeling nostalgic, we look through them to revisit those memories and travel back in time to that special moment. So naturally, photos tend to hold a lot of sentimental value, which can make decluttering and organizing them a nightmare if you don’t have a solid strategy set in place.

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how to get rid of clutter

go through your belongings and get rid of what you don’t need. donate books you know you won’t read again, and donate old clothes you never wear anymore. 

in the book “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” the author Marie Kondo says to only keep the things that spark joy. otherwise, donate it or throw it away.

find all of your old papers. do you really need all of your math worksheets from seventh grade? probably not. if you tend to hang onto lots of old papers, look through all of them and recycle the ones you don’t want.  

go through your laptop and phone. delete those history readings and old handouts you don’t need anymore, and get rid of apps you don’t use. these things tend to pile up and eat up all of your storage. re-organize all of your files into clearly labeled folders. 

get rid of toxic relationships. don’t keep people in your life who are making you unhappy. find ways to distance yourself from them and you will likely feel a lot better. 

clear your mind. write your thoughts in a journal, go for a walk or a run, or take a warm bath. find ways to calm your thoughts and decompress. 

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if y’all were ever wondering about my desk, this is what it looks like right now! i’m trying out this cool new filter i got :)

listening to: you might be sleeping by jacob ogawa and clairo

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so your last semester wasn’t great.

we’ve all been there fam. in fact my previous semester was not great either – i got kicked out of my university’s honor program. You need a 3.5 cumulative GPA to stay in, and because of a lot of different circumstances, I finished out with a 3.48 – which is, frankly, better than i deserved. But this semester I’m gonna get a 4.0 and reapply. So here’s how ya do it. 

1. have a good first day. 

a big mistake is to go balls-to-the-wall discipline on your first day. Fuckin… relax, dude. Wake up as early as you need to be ready, but don’t push yourself to be up at 5am or anything like that. Set our your stuff the night before so you can have an easy morning. Treat yourself to a good breakfast or just get that fast food you’ve been craving for lunch. It’s really important not to stress yourself out too much, especially after your last semester kinda sucked, and it’s VERY important not to let yourself automatically associate school with negative emotions like fear and stress, because that will paralyze you down the line when things get more difficult closer to exam season, etc. 

2. don’t be afraid to drop

when going to all your new classes, really seriously evaluate your ability to succeed in a class with that time slot/professor/etc. last semester I had a quantitative reasoning class that was part of our core curriculum – the professor was NOT good at their job, did not teach us the material, and frankly showing up to that class was a waste of my time. What i SHOULD have done was DROP THE DAMN CLASS the first week, and taken it the next semester with a better professor. 

3. limit other activities at first

your first couple weeks of the new semester, cut back on other activities. I’m really active in political stuff going on around my city, and i’m on a leadership team for an organization that does that kind of stuff. I’ve let the team know that I’m not going to be participating, going to meetings, or ANYTHING for the next two weeks while my semester gets started. The reasons for this are many – it helps you get used to the pace of all your classes without being stressed out by other things, it helps you reorganize your priorities and put school first, and it also helps you build credit with your professors, so down the line if you’re having problems (like ‘oh SHIT i forgot this homework’ or ‘FUCK i don’t understand this project i need an extension’) they’ll be more likely to help you out, because they know you’ve been putting the effort in. 

4. try out something new organizationally

if you’re like me, keeping track of assignments is really difficult. I lose papers all the damn time. So this semester I’ve bought one of those accordion file thingies – so I can keep all my papers in one place, while still having them separate and organized. Just remember, the strategy is only one part, but you’re responsible for sticking to it and making it work. 

so there ya have it, friends. you’re ready to start this ‘recovery semester’ off with a bang. you can do it, and so can I!

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11.21.18 // why do I leave everything til the last minute

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my new desk setup is working really well so far 💭

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Marie Kondo: Does this spark joy?

Me, looking at all of the discarded water bottles carelessly tossed around my room: Well fuck

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Self-Care Via Cleaning

I don’t call myself a neat freak because sometimes I let dishes sit for days or leave a heap on my floor before cleaning it up, but over time I’ve grown to like cleaning.

Hear me out

Nothing makes me feel more at-home than having my space looking nice. The aesthetics of it. I like coming home to a pleasantly arranged room. Sure maybe my pajamas are in a pile, or I left some books lying around, but I know where all my things are and I can easily put away the small mess that’s there.

I used to be a full blown mess. Dirty everywhere, plates piling up from days of eating, empty bottles and cans everywhere, trash all over. But since college I’ve been a lot tidier, and that’s made all the difference for me.

Now when I get stressed out, I like to clean. There’s something to be said about decluttering what’s visible to feel a little more at ease inside. 

If you have a day off, why not get around to cleaning a little? Dishes can only take 15-20 minutes too, and though washing dishes is a little repetitive I find it a good time to sing a little. 

Chores don’t have to be chores if you think about it as decluttering your life. And you can just start off with 10 minutes or something. Like wash your face first, to feel clean, and then start cleaning.

If you need a little more encouragement I recommend watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix. 

Marie is a 34-year-old Japanese mother who loves tidying up and has written this best-selling book, and now there’s a Netflix show about it. I’ve watched through it, and much like Queer Eye it’s diverse and wholesome and if you want to get into the spirit of cleaning it’s a good place to start.

The show features straight couples and gay couples, gay POC and straight POC, and families and people young and old. 

And sure these people are close to hoarder-level in the amount of things they own, so it puts into perspective how little you might own in your room alone. 

I know for people with mental illnesses it might be hard to get the motivation to clean things, but it only takes a little at a time and you may learn new methods in the series by prioritizing the items that give you joy rather than what’s convenient. And that helps with getting rid of unnecessary things.

Of course I’m not sponsored or anything, I just wanted to put this out there for anyone who wants to actively change their life a little at a time and at least for me, learning to enjoy tidying up has been one of the positive changes I’ve made in the past few years. 

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I'm a Little Too Addicted to Decluttering

I’m a Little Too Addicted to Decluttering

I know I haven’t been posting here recently, and I think it’s only fair that I give a bit of an update on my ‘minimalist journey’.

Just like everyone else in the entire world, I watched Marie Kondo’s Netflix series. And then I watched it again. And maybe a third time. Oops?

I found that every time I watched it, it scratched a bit of that constant itch to get rid of all my stuff. But once I…

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More Money, More Things: The Struggle Between Want and Need

More Money, More Things: The Struggle Between Want and Need

Our society, especially in the United States, has a bit of an obsession with material possessions. It’s one of the most common things people talk about: more money, nicer cars, bigger houses, newer technology.

It’s a never-endingcycle, too. We want more money so we can buy more things, and now that we’vebought more things we have less money, so we want moremoney to buy more things. I don’tthink…

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