#pinkalicious

Hai guys, I am gonna be sharing things you can do instead of doomscrolling on your social medias and letting yourself fall prey to comparison and rotting as much. (These are in no particular order although numbered, and this list will include things on and off of your tech devices

Word searches and crossword puzzles!! Personally, I do a crossword puzzle everyday on the Sporcle app, which not only has crosswords but other fun games and quizzes as well. Your local grocery stores, gas stations, airports, Five Below’s, and book stores will often have crossword puzzle and word search books, I find them to be a fun mental exercise and you may even learn something new! For word searches I also enjoy apps like Word Search, Wordscapes, and Zenword

Create a new playlist, there is so much music out there and it is so fun to find new things you like. I also find every once in a while that it can be fun to organize the ones you already have.

Do on a walk and give yourself a breath of fresh air

Find a fun craft to do, Pinterest and YouTube have great ideas and tutorials and it can be relaxing to do something with your hands

Find a new recipe to try, whether it is from your family cookbook, a purchased cookbook, or Pinterest, or YouTube there is a plethora of recipes you can try and you may find yourself a new family tradition

Check in on your family and friends!! Go through your contacts and ask how people are doing who you haven’t talked to in a while. It is much easier for us to watch people’s lives online now and assume they are doing well, so much so that we forget to actually reach out and ask and start conversation because we often feel we don’t really have to because we have already seen online. However, social media is a facade, often curated to be aesthetically pleasing, few people are gonna come online and tell you what’s really going on.

Take the time to learn something that you have been wanting to try, I recently tried embroidering and although it takes a while it is so fun and such a fun way to customize your belongings and add a special touch.

Do through your closet, break things up into things you know you won’t wear anymore and want to give away or donate, things you can upcycle, and things that you want to keep.

Find a good book, put on some instrumental music that you like(I enjoy noir jazz, “sleep aquariums”, Japanese piano, and older Disney instrumentals)i personally read better when I have my phone’s app limits on through an app called forest(completely free),it basically allows you to go into a super deep focus mode, and for however long you a lot yourself to spend time off of your distracting apps, you grow a tree in your virtual forest. I like to keep apps like messages, calls, FaceTime, Spotify, and YouTube open but turn off pretty much everything else.

Journal!! It is so relaxing to allow yourself to write your thoughts out, or just feel like you have someone to talk to who isn’t going to go sharing your secrets or deepest feelings.

Clean or organize your room

Find a good (non-redpill lol) podcast to listen to, or a ted talk, you may gain some new perspective, learn something new, or find inspiration

Have a movie marathon with yourself, your family, or your friends, and try to get everyone on board fo you being a phone free experience so you can enjoy the films and eachothers company

Try some yoga or guided meditation, if it is not accessible for you to did class in your city(whether not financially accessible or there just isn’t any in town) YouTube and Spotify both have options for guided meditations, and YouTube has them for yoga as long as Pinterest for the poses

This one kind of goes along with number 6 but plan something with your friends or family and enjoy eachothers presence and how yourselves the opportunity to create new memories

Create or update a vision board, personally I would say Pinterest is my vision board space, but you could also make them using cardstock paper, or poster boards, and printed images or drawings if you are artistic.

Color,draw,or paint something

Try a new makeup look or facepaint look, Pinterest has so much inspo that you can tweak to make your own, or copy if you would like todo that as well

in another life i am pinkalicous. 🧁 i miss running her bakery on my DS with my pink ipod shuffle.