u/rosypreach

UPDATE - Please stop pointing out that I'm judgmental in the House of Criticism of Consumption. You're in the wrong sub.

Anti-consumption is a sub, and I quote: "primarily for criticizing and discussing consumer culture."

The point of this sub is to judge, discuss and analyze consumer culture.

Somebody even went so far as to make a cruel comment telling me I'll never have children because of my attitude. Ouch. And I'm getting downvoted or expressing normal statements about anti-consumption and mental health.

I posted a longer update in the comments about everything I've learned about what new parents need for babies, and have expressed much empathy in the comments individually for everything I've learned and everybody's individual experiences.

If you're not from this sub and see this post and it upsets you, please just be kind.

This post was meant to talk to people and parents specifically who really care about anti-consumption - and my experience has been a lot of deflecting accusations about my lack of knowledge about what parents need, and hearing so much defense of high consumption and gift registry culture, of which I have expressed much empathy - but it doesn't feel like we're actually having a conversation about anti-consumption.

Finally if you're not into anti-consumption, can you please just stop attacking me? This post isn't for you. Thank you.

ORIGINAL POST:

I was invited to a friend's baby shower, for which it was requested we purchase something off of the registry and bring a pack of diapers.

As I scrolled the registry I was shocked at the sheer quantity of items:

115 total.

46 were already purchased, with 50+ remaining.

I couldn't even fathom the stress of having to process that many incoming packages plus maintain every single item along with having a new baby.

If there are any parents around here, how did you keep your intake to a minimum?

Beyond reducing consumption with buy nothing groups - how did you actually keep the things you got for the baby to a basic quantity?

Hi folks!

Does anybody have a method - or a YouTube tutorial - about how they come up with weekly meal plans and then input them into Cronometer?

In the most streamlined way possible?

Thanks!

Hi everybody! New to Monopoly Deal, and just started playin on playmdeal.

I was notified multiple times I achieved a ranking of 'Silver' for playing with bots.

Will there be another award ranking? If yes, at what points level?

Thanks!

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This morning after two pages, I was so over writing words. I decided to take the advice I give to so many people in this sub: Do what you feel like during your morning pages. Any act of creativity counts.

Well I decided to draw my cat and this is what happened.

Visual art is not my main artistic practice, but I enjoy it a lot!

Hi everybody! I've recently been more in routine with my morning pages, but since I've been sick with a really bad cold, have been a little more off my game.

Today I sat down with my journal and wrote out a check-list of what I need to do today.

I felt my body was not up for 3 pages and instead challenged myself to jot down 10 random thoughts. I listed numbers 1-10 and the result was honest and hilarious.

What do you do for morning pages when you're not feeling well?

How do you adjust the morning pages to different circumstances and energy levels?

I enjoyed my prompt so much I'm thinking of getting a writing prompt book. It was more fun for me than word-vomiting, TBH.

Looking forward to your thoughts and explorations!

After completing TAW a couple weeks ago, I finally sat down to work on a project I haven't touched in 10 months - to my absolute chagrin. This is a deeply personal project that has been through workshops, labs and has a team attached to move it forward in the world. And after a reading and some difficult feedback last summer, I pulled away from it.

Tonight I opened the binder back up and looked at my notes. Read the first page. Created space on my desktop for the documents I'll need to use, and deleted any distractions on my desktop. Created the document where I'll take notes as I work on the rewrite.

I'm really proud. I'm even crying a little.

I can't believe I went through that inspired this project (which was hard) and that I've decided I would work really hard to tell a story about it that matters, to me.

And that today I could sit and re-open the binder and say, okay, I'm ready to face this.

Moving through the shame that I haven't nailed the script yet, and into appreciation for doing this at all.

I'm really, really scared. I don't know how I'll pull it off.

But I know that this project is for me to take home. Not by force, but with really deep listening to what it wants to be.

So I hope the community will show up to celebrate with me!

For accountability, my next steps:

I'm going to read some other scripts to get my brain in the muscle of 'good scripts' -

re-awakening my taste.

Then I'm going to read *this* script and even though I'm going to be really afraid, I'm going to do it. I might ask a friend to read it with me. Or I might just read it out loud to myself and take notes.

Then I'll digest how that felt...

and make a daily / weekly rewrite schedule...and work from there!

Huzzah.

Thank you for celebrating this momentous occasion with me today.

Hey folks! I was gifted a wet swiffer by my Aunt and got velcro things to stick to it, made my own replacement liquid, etc. Now it's fully broken.

For now I've gone back to my normal swiffer with just a rag, water and dish soap.

I also own the O Cedar mop with a replaceable head, but honestly hate how gross those mop-heads get, and washing them is expensive in my building.

Should I throw the Wet Swiffer in the trash?

What should I use instead?

Thanks!

No pics, but tonight I took my partner's leftover angel hair pasta, sprinkled it with:

olive oil

salt

black pepper

garlic powder

a couple tablespoons of greek yogurt

mixed it together, ate it cold

Lemme tell ya, it was amazing. 10/10

Hey folks,

Hope you're well today! I just finished reading Week 12, and maybe it's my exhaustion and mood - but I was hoping to feel as galvanized and inspired as I had when previously reading the chapter. This time, it came across to me as a lot of magical thinking and even made me feel confused.

Maybe it's actually my own feelings of helplessness - I have achieved artistic success many times by fully committing. After many years of chronic illness, I've become more tepid. I feel that I can no longer commit the way I used to, which would sometimes create over-rides in my body and make my systems worsen. In the past, pursuing my creativity at the highest level and inspiration has come at a great cost to my well-being.

But then I realized in the beginning of this year, I was in a poetry workshop, and I fully committed *without* over-riding my system. The reason why it worked is because I followed the magical feelings and my intuition when applying, and once within the workshop, fully committed to my rewrite and performance. I didn't really experience one big gnarly 'test' - though, I had a few.

Learning to format the document in time was a huge test.

So was the cabin I went to to work on the book, which was haunted and had a difficult host.

And, some remarks before my performance that hurt my feelings that I needed to work through before getting on stage.

Also, a few hours before I went on stage I fully smashed my head into a metal gate.

In retrospect, the success of this experience really does match Julia's description of the artistic process - setting goals, embodying them fully, tests and fulfillment.

But what I don't really love about the chapter is that we honestly don't always know the difference between intuition, distraction, friend or foe.

The call to keep our goals secretive and to be discerning can land on me like asking me to be really paranoid. It's too much pressure to always discern the 'right' thing. I don't want that kind of pressure to engage in paranoid magical thinking in my daily life!

Like, I'm fine to trust my intuition but the phrasing feels extreme to me.

Also, the line "Our truest dream for ourselves is always God's will for us." - on page 194. I think I believed that before I got sick, but now that I spent 8 years navigating chronic pain and illness...I'm not so sure any more. It feels really naive. And surely there are folks whose dreams are certainly NOT divine will. Like, evil people. Or are they expressing divine will? It brings up a lot of complex questions about theology, honestly, delivered in a very simple self-help feel good phrase.

What do you think?

How did Week 12 land for you?

Lots of love and heart opening art!