Cait Flanders shares why she stopped using Pinterest, Pocket, and bookmarks.
Episode 837: You Can't Read, Watch and Do Everything by Cait Flanders (Simple Living & Minimalism - Escaping Pinterest & More).
Cait Flanders started Blonde on a Budget to document her debt repayment journey. After paying it off, she adopted a minimalist lifestyle, tossed 75% of her stuff, and is currently doing a two-year shopping ban. She shares stories and lessons learned every week.
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This is optimal. Living daily episode, eight hundred and thirty seven, you can't read, watch and do everything by K, Flanders, of K, Flanders, our com.
My very own person narrator, just Malik reading to you from some amazing blogs, ambush books to help you optimize. Your life today steals comes from Kate, Flint
earth who I got to meet last year in Dallas at Fink on the personal financed conference. She was super nice
and she has a book there came a recently definite check it out- is called the year
of less all about how she stopped shopping.
Rid of a bunch of belonging to live more simply, if I more info about the book at key Flanders dot com, unless I was super cheap,
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you years arouse on Twitter. I use the old Favourite
to save articles us on an interesting based on the title but which I dunno
time to read at that exact moment every week or two
so. My favorite tab and skim through the articles to see which one still interested me to my surprise.
I removed most of them without ever reading a single word. The same. Has
Also always been true of how I used the bookmarks feature in my web browser. I saved article
that sounded interesting or which held information on topic that I knew would be useful in the future. I think greeted folders upon
alders upon folders and thought I had the most organised collection of links anywhere
other had ever seen, but I
never read them to sign. This might not seem like a big deal
So what if I say some articles and then decided not to read them
continue along this journey of embracing minimalism and becoming a more conscious consumer. Am
I was reminded of the bigger goal to remove the non essentials, so I can make room
or what I really want and the more I thought about my bookmarking habits. I realized,
The issue wasn't that I was saving articles are probably never read. It was how much
time. I was wasting scrolling through content to find those articles. I probably never read life without bookmarks. If you can
described my blog for a while. You know that when I set my
find something I tend to go all in his
we most evident when I was paying down debt, but was also true when I started get
rid of my belongings. I never suck
Yes myself, I just through things in bags and boxes and got rid of it when inside it.
Change my bookmarking habits. I started by two
immediate action and deleted every single bookmark and the folder.
I created for them
I will say yes, I guess myself once saw the folders work.
Of ideas for my blog and places I wanted to travel to. As I look at some of the tiles I thought
really do want to do those things one day, but air
There's a magical thing called Google they'll help me
and what I need. One I'm ready to take action that day is
today and the bookmarks we're just digital clutter. I felt the need
cause only organise so
like to them all pit delete and
saved. One sense quote
never memorize anything! You can look up Albert Einstein.
Why I hate Pinterest
before deleted my bookmarks, I deleted all my boards and hands on dangerous last fall when I showed a few
the ways I try to be more cautious about my social media consumption. I mentioned that I hate Pinterest.
Belgium. Resistance on the topic be certain that just because I hate something doesn't
I think everyone has to. If you give value from something physical or digital, you should keep it in your life, but you're my thoughts on it. When I use pin
rest? I wasn't just looking for New D. I why ideas or recipes try. I felt like I was building a page full of boards that portrayed my idea.
Life, the tiny house I wanted to live in one day, the unique way-
is utilised small spaces. The gardener create the pets,
have and so on the life tat I loved it,
one day was on Pinterest but is not alive.
Actually living right now and wasting time. Creating those boards
in helping me get what I want to just wasting my time. Some of my court unquote hate. We can call it a strong dislike towards pinches,
probably also comes from being a blogger and knowing how bloggers are supposed to use, it were told, Agree Board
I represent our brand attract follower.
And bring in more traffic to generate more money. When I try to do that, for
on a budget on Pinterest. It felt fake, enforced,
My love visual media, but I want to spend hours greeting boards and key
it's updating them just because I'm supposed to you can't read, watch and do everything if we were to get technical, MITS, fair to say that Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook only asked
to do one thing scroll through our feed to see what might interest us and neither read it then or save it for later. Is this
therefore later part that I am not willing to do any more. I just can't if I don't have time a resembling, then there's no point bookmarking if her later, because
there's a ninety nine percent chance I'll, never readers- and you know why, because in it
am I log on I'm just going to see more staff.
What if I miss out on something well, so what what's gonna happen to me and my
gonna be dismissed by my friends, because I didn't watch that video on Youtube. Everyone is sharing on Facebook or
miss out on the news, because I don't follow any new sources on social media. No man! If I did, I don't really care because limiting
self to only consumers? Small amount of the information that thrown at me every day means I am pro,
we spending more time doing what I really want to do quote. It has to be ok to say
CS, I it read it or watch it. Otherwise, you have spent life catching up on Netflix, reading, a backlog of top ten lists or looking, I guess, from coworkers. If those activities fit your goals, go for it
but if they get you no closer to achieving what you really want to achieve tomorrow next year or in the next five years, down
the relevance in your life maneuver some roadie think about it. This way, how many times have you
You wanna try five new recipes each month and how many hours of you spent pinning those
these two pinterest man never actually tried any of them or only try to view.
Similar to the way I used to buy books. I wanted to read a one day. I feel it bookmarking things
was just another way of holding on some ideas about who I thought I should be, rather than being myself
and doing the things I actually want to do now, I want to create a bunch of board
therefore portray my deal life. I want to save money
so I can make it a reality, and I want to save links to pocket. I can read about the sixteen books. I must read in twenty six tee.
I want to read: what's all my shelf right now, and I really do
I spent a minute organizing digital clutter. If anything, I want to say
more time away from my phone and my computer either getting
aside or doing something: creative instead opinion idea to Pinterest. Do it every time
check your phone, email or social media accounts. There's gonna be something
new for you to read large and do you can't do it all
There, origin enough hours in the day to consume all the information thus thrown at us, let alone get through the backlog we create when we bookmark pen and say
things for later and that's ok. In fact, I think it's great you shouldn't spin off
your waking hours consuming information, you should
spending them living. The very short life were given these
One thing I know is true about this topic is that we can all duly are bookmarks and pans, but we can't get the time back that we put into saving them, which would you
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the higher than Albert Einstein closely, she mention is funny to me the one that said, never memorize anything. You can look up because our way
before the internet and I was there.
Mason right at our fingertips. We can look up most things online and so quickly to say
Making wonder what do we need to memorize anymore? I came to think of it
the top my head, an usher as good or bad, and is also funny to me that
This post summarizes one of the reasons I created this pike S for you, so I can do the work of creating articles and then he ought to scroll
hundreds and and save them
We rely on me to find them and read them to you. While you do other things so they gave me.
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