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Collecting a stack of printed takeout menus from local restaurants is equivalent to finding community in your town/city. I love to get off my phone and flip through a printed menu when deciding what to order for dinner, appreciating the graphic design choices and the hometown staples on each menu.
And they are only wasteful if you waste them! What great material for emergency note-taking, for adorning your fridge, for COLLAGING! Oh my goodness what great and meaningful content organically exists in a printed takeout menu from your favorite local spot.
Feb 5, 2025
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Whenever my friends and I hang out at a restaurant or store, I make sure to pick up the little neglected business cards at the cashier or take the post card attached to the restaurant check.
I take them home and tape them to a page in my journal as a memory of the day. My roommate and I have started collecting the restaurant post cards and hang them on the fridge because we love to go out to eat.
Apr 23, 2024
one of my top activities - all should have a collection of lost images, grocery lists, tiny toys, the list only continues
(p.s. scanning them is also fun ;)
Feb 23, 2025
I've been in the habit of recreating print designs, or just creating my own, and printing them at any print shop I can find (local places, CVS, etc...) It unlocks a bit of your brain when you realize you can just design something and have it blown up on your wall for relatively cheap.
Nov 30, 2024
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In pre-21st century movies and media, we always see couples that go to bed, independently read their books, and once sleepy, clap off the lights and peacefully retire to sleep. Maybe there’s a reason this trope is so common! Maybe couples who read together, sleep together!!
Reading before bed regulates my brain and body in ways I did not know were possible. Screens are bad for you, specifically and especially before bedtime… who knew! And with a good nights sleep I have so much energy to do things, including but not limited to more reading.
Jan 23, 2025
Mr. Cassavetes is the man who has made me cry the most, isn’t that saying something!
Starting ten minutes into the 2.5 hour-long film, I felt my heart slowly sink into my stomach, and by the end I was claustrophobic with such feelings of hopelessness, confusion, and the sting of reality. I cried myself to sleep, I didn’t know what else to do with myself!
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is worth a watch for all these reasons, and for Gena Rowland’s unmatched and masterful performance, and for these reasons is a movie I must never watch again. Brava!
Feb 3, 2025
In 2025, I am embracing Breakfast. And not just a latte-for-breakfast moment, but Breakfast as a meal. Like how aimeefrance on insta is conducting Breakfast as, truly, the most important meal of the day.
Lately, my favorite breakfast has been a half pumpernickel bagel, with a light coat of cream cheese, and fruit. Pumpernickel is nutty, is complex in flavor, and is versatile! Dare I say, what sourdough is to bread generally, pumpernickel is to bagels specifically!
I eagerly await the day where I can try my newest food fixation, the pumpernickel bagel, with a soft scrambled egg and cheddar cheese, or with puddles of butter dotted with strawberry jam!
Jan 23, 2025