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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 6, 2020 21:17:01 GMT
To my fellow pandemic documenters:
1. What are you documenting?
2. How are you documenting these times?
3. Any special products or faves that are coming in handy?
I'm about to finish my National Confinement 4x4 mini and will start my Pandemic Summer follow-up as soon as my adhesive order arrives from the US. So far, I've reached almost exclusively for stuff from my beloved Kelly Purkey stash (if I don't use it now, I'll hoard it forever as her shop is closing).
I just realised while browsing a clothing website that I hadn't documented some of the smaller yet distinct ways the pandemic has affected every single aspect of life like how models are being sent clothes to their home so they can photograph themselves wearing the outfits in a safe manner. Need to grab a screenshot and add that. Which small "quirks" are you including in your project?
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Post by FurryP on Jul 7, 2020 0:00:50 GMT
Just throwing out there what I came across yesterday. Unsplash has free Covid images of high quality for free in case you don't like what you have. Unsplash I think it was you sleepingbooty that posted about this site before about DD photos.
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Post by Linda on Jul 7, 2020 1:20:43 GMT
I'm including my pandemic memories in our 2020 family album. I'm doing a monthly page using the persnickety timelines + journalling that's pandemic specific. But I'm also documenting on some of the everyday life pages - remote learning, grocery shopping, mask wearing, parks closed, I have a photo DH snapped of a pack of TP sitting in the car next to him that he finally found after several days and multiple stores...stuff like that
Because I scrap a lot of everyday moments in my family album - not just events and holidays and outings - the pandemic has become a part of our everyday life at the moment (plus there aren't any outings and events, lol). I'm not scrapping much of the broader society impact beyond what shows up on those monthly pages- focusing more on the personal impacts.
I downloaded a bunch of free digital pandemic stuff that was linked here in the big Covid supply thread and have been using that mixed with my regular supplies. I have been focusing on using what I have (as I have too much) rather than buying more during the staying safer at home - and we're continuing to stay safer at home at least until school starts back up - I'm not keen on having DD13 go back to school but it may happen anyway
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 1:34:38 GMT
I’m one title/cover page away from being done with my virus diaries, and most pages have been shared via my Flickr on the sharing threads (May-June). Mine is a little bit of everything - personal and political, my photos and photos I’ve borrowed from people I know/people I follow/people of the internet. I’ve quoted certain Peas (yes, Ms Booty, you are mentioned at least twice!) and tried to get both personal and global perspectives in there. There is a lot I couldn’t fit in, of course, and I’m not sure I want to start a second book right now, but it’s a pretty good overview of the pandemic without being a day by day journal. I have daily notes in Day One, but I tended towards stories and topics for the book - fads, haircuts, news stories, memes, personal baking adventures, grocery shopping, etc each get a page or spread. As soon as I can get my malfunctioning phone fixed or replaced and that last page done I will share a flip through of some kind.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Jul 7, 2020 1:49:08 GMT
Mine is a dedicated Citrus twist life crafted album. It's a travelers journal size. I've just now started working on it cause I had trouble organizing it in my head how I wanted it to go. After hemming and hawing too much I just started printing out pictures I had taken since it all started. My intent is for it to be a mix of our family, community, and the world view. I started with the printable from persnickety prints that has the month of January and all that happened regarding the coronavirus. Then I'm putting what we where doing in January. I will lead each month with one of these.
As for supplies, of course the Kelly Purkey stuff, I printed out a ton of the free stuff that came out at 1st, I got Hip Kit from this month that has mostly pinkfresh studios let's stay home line, and I am a subscriber to citrus twist so I plan on mostly using those things with stuff added from my stash as needed. Oh yeah, I picked up the PL Click kit on a whim months and months ago cause it didn't have round corners, and so many of it's cards apply to today's situation. So I'm using those as well.
It's slow going, and I need to figure out how to print a travelers journal sized photo without photoshop, but I just need time to get rolling. Seeing that its smaller, it should go faster once I get going!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 7, 2020 7:50:42 GMT
I started in March, and every month I do several pages related to the pandemic. I have no hard & fast rules, but it usually includes:
A page for what's happening directly in my city (like change & restrictions on trash collection & stoppage of transportation).
A page for what's happening directly in my state (Stay at Home order, business closures, etc).
A page about how the pandemic is directly affecting my life & my kids' lives. School closing, being furloughed for several months, etc. Selfies, what my teens are baking, lots of journaling, pics of us playing in the backyard, or playing board games in the living room, etc.
And since I'm American, I also include political stuff in my album. For example, I have a whole layout dedicated to when Trump said disinfectant might be able to be injected into the body to fight COVID19.
If we had any other president, what they would say would be nearly boring, it would be so predictable, and sensible. But since we have Trump, I feel it's important to explain why the federal reaction to the pandemic is so lacking and mishandled.
I am doing this project big, 12x12. It's such a big part of our lives right now, and I have so much to include.
I'm using stash to document. A cobbling of the neutral sheets from a baby themed pad, a pad called Poolside, a pad called Mad for Plaid. Some solid cardstock.
I have used so many generic Pl cards too, for journaling, for titles, etc. Lots of cards that have "Today" or "Remember" have come in handy. Also month cards.
i have a small couple globe stamps that come in handy to embellish with.
I take a lot of screen shots.
Local news websites
CNN
CDC
Instagram of my mayor & governor.
And i hunt Pinterest for memes to embellish with. I screenshot them, print them with my photo order. I use a seriously large number of memes, with no regrets.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jul 7, 2020 8:51:45 GMT
How bad is it that I'm basically not documenting anything...hardly taking any pictures worth recording even for my PL. At the pace I'm going, I could probably fill all of this year into a single 9x12 album (usually PL is 2 12x12 albums for me) with room to spare and if we're still under restrictions come the holiday season (my biggest photo sessions are an annual trip to an orchard at the start of October and a few activities in December) even those events wouldn't fill the album. I've taken a few photos of places we go to show what normal looks like right now and an occasional photo of the kids in their element (primarily living on Fortnite) but I don't need 100 photos of either to get the point across. We didn't even do anything for the 4th of July this year...it was my first year since we've had all 3 kids (maybe even longer) that I haven't taken cutesy photos of the kids together decked out in their patriotic outfits because it didn't feel even remotely like a holiday. If not for the weather changing, it would be impossible to tell that any time is passing.
Ultimately, my album for 2020 is going to be remarkable only because of how unremarkable it is. I don't usually take a lot of food photos, but my husband and I sneaking out of the house for meals by ourselves is the only fun thing we get to do which is new for us as parents (and every time it's a dine in situation, I get emotional because it is the closest to normal we have right now) and I do take more food pictures because of it. Before this, I would never have felt comfortable leaving my kids home alone and didn't have a clue when it would feel right to do, but the pandemic sure made that decision a LOT easier to make.
We have so little in terms of reliable information thanks to the suppression at the hands of the government (more testing equals more cases, hardy har har) that I have no real interest in recording statistics.
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Post by msliz on Jul 7, 2020 10:09:00 GMT
I keep a yearly family album for the five of us. I've planned a 2 page pandemic/quarantine related layout for March, and I'll likely make another layout for September to outline what our lives look like at that point. DH teaches and at least one DD will be in school, so September will bring changes of some sort or another.
This summer's pages might be thin, but we still take pictures of our lives at home, so I'll still have something to scrap. Probably no beach photos, but that's okay by me.
I didn't buy any special pandemic related scrapping supplies, so I'll probably just be printing off stuff that I find online. I don't feel the need to document everything about it. Just what's specific to my family and our lives.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 7, 2020 10:38:54 GMT
Just throwing out there what I came across yesterday. Unsplash has free Covid images of high quality for free in case you don't like what you have. Unsplash I think it was you sleepingbooty that posted about this site before about DD photos. I definitely use Unsplash and Pexels regularly so it was probably me. Pexels Covid-19 selection is pretty bomb too.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 7, 2020 11:00:32 GMT
I have a photo DH snapped of a pack of TP sitting in the car next to him that he finally found after several days and multiple stores... Bwahaha, I took a photo of the toilet paper I managed to get for my mother and stepfather back in March and added the "my precious" sentiment to it in my mini! It's the little things... I've only found yeast again in the past couple of weeks so we're baking Dutch oven bread now and that's the next thing I have to grab a photo of. A small life can still be a good life! Love your stay at home LOs, by the way, Linda. I hope your son is well where he is stationed! I’m one title/cover page away from being done with my virus diaries, and most pages have been shared via my Flickr on the sharing threads (May-June). Mine is a little bit of everything - personal and political, my photos and photos I’ve borrowed from people I know/people I follow/people of the internet. I’ve quoted certain Peas (yes, Ms Booty, you are mentioned at least twice!) and tried to get both personal and global perspectives in there I saw your beautiful diary pages in the sharing thread. I need to go see your entire collection on Flickr to figure out which nonsensical things I've uttered that made your diaries... I love your classic, elegant approach to the project. It's such a genuine yet introspective manner of creating a record. Will you be storing them in a special "carrier" like a leather pouch or box? Makes me want to consider it for autumn to switch things up. It's slow going, and I need to figure out how to print a travelers journal sized photo without photoshop, but I just need time to get rolling. Seeing that its smaller, it should go faster once I get going! Go you! Once you've figured out and mastered your method of choice, you'll fly through that more annoying, technical part of the project. Are your working back to the start of the pandemic or picking the documenting up now-ish? And i hunt Pinterest for memes to embellish with. I screenshot them, print them with my photo order. I use a seriously large number of memes, with no regrets. Meme lovers unite! No shame, no regret. I have to make sure I don't forget the Obama checking his pockets meme to my mini before I finish it. It remains one my Pandemic meme favourites. "Keys. Phone. Mask. Mask, mask..." How bad is it that I'm basically not documenting anything...hardly taking any pictures worth recording even for my PL. Aww, big hugs to you, scrapaddict702. It is rough. It is tough. I hope you can find a little bit of mojo to document some more soon. I don't have any outside space and share a small apartment so I think documenting the pandemic was a way to keep sane during our hardcore confinement months. It was part of my copic mechanism. We didn't have all the food we needed, we didn't have fresh air besides the open window. Something inside me was begging to focus on what I did have but I can see how different circumstances and a different personality could lead to the opposite reaction. If you're in the mood for it, you can do a making-up-for-July-4th celebration? Heck, you can take Bastille Day and use it as an excuse since we share the same flag colours! It's definitely a weird year. Don't feel bad if you're "only" making one family album or find yourself with loads of food photos. Nothing is normal. I've planned a 2 page pandemic/quarantine related layout for March, and I'll likely make another layout for September to outline what our lives look like at that point. Oooh, great idea if you don't want to do a prolonged project! A sort of DITL/WITL double-spreader. Are you also doing a page during summer to show the ajdusted staycation kind of time?
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Post by Linda on Jul 7, 2020 13:03:06 GMT
Bwahaha, I took a photo of the toilet paper I managed to get for my mother and stepfather back in March and added the "my precious" sentiment to it in my mini! It's the little things... I've only found yeast again in the past couple of weeks so we're baking Dutch oven bread now and that's the next thing I have to grab a photo of. A small life can still be a good life! Love your stay at home LOs, by the way, Linda. I hope your son is well where he is stationed! Thank you. Yes - he's doing well. His state is doing better than ours is (pretty low bar there though - I'm in Florida) but the Navy hasn't relaxed its restrictions yet. He's an essential worker so he does go into base at least a couple of days of week which helps - living alone is hard during a pandemic.
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Post by msliz on Jul 7, 2020 13:19:10 GMT
I've planned a 2 page pandemic/quarantine related layout for March, and I'll likely make another layout for September to outline what our lives look like at that point. Oooh, great idea if you don't want to do a prolonged project! A sort of DITL/WITL double-spreader. Are you also doing a page during summer to show the ajdusted staycation kind of time? Maybe? Each season, I usually have a page or two with a collection of miscellaneous snapshots ( the multi-photo stories and events usually get at least a full page to themselves ). The only difference this year is that they'll likely all be set at home, so I could certainly mention the reason why.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 14:30:30 GMT
I saw your beautiful diary pages in the sharing thread. I need to go see your entire collection on Flickr to figure out which nonsensical things I've uttered that made your diaries... I love your classic, elegant approach to the project. It's such a genuine yet introspective manner of creating a record. Will you be storing them in a special "carrier" like a leather pouch or box? Makes me want to consider it for autumn to switch things up. Thank you. I have a HS Storyline binder that has room for a couple more albums, so that may be Pandemic Lockdown parts 2 and 3, or I might fill a book with reading/movies and another with Christmas. You are my source in France, so I mentioned how you actually needed to document why you were going out, that's on a recent page. And I printed the convo we had on a thread very early before everything hit the fan - I was still optimistic because I didn't know it was already raging through Europe (and here, silently) and people were just worried about not being able to get kits. That's one of the very first pages.
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Post by scrapcat on Jul 7, 2020 15:33:50 GMT
Love hearing everyone's projects and takes on this. I have to visit the gallery.... I have not actually documented anything yet, except for what I recorded in my WITL project this year and my Heidi Swapp planner, which is less of a planner and more of a log. I have photos printed and elements from the Traci Reed Stay at Home kit. I also have the Persnickety Prints timelines saved as well. I have journaling saved from when we did the Disney crop and you, sleepingbooty , prompted us with many questions. I plan to make my pages more categorical, almost like a collage, esp for the things that happened in the beginning of lockdown in March/April. So a page about all the cleaning (wipes, santizier, etc), a page about all the baking/cooking, a page about the projects I was able to catch up on. I have a large series of photos of one of my cats on the table where we work, laying across laptops, chewing on laptops, laying on notes, etc, so that will probably be its own page too, intertwined with some stories about working from home. I was dabbling in other projects, but I am ready to get back to my regular scrapping. Especially now that I know my Expo is cancelled (where I usually get a lot of scrapping done at crops) so I am getting back to it. Thanks for the inspo! eta: joblackford - just checked out your album in flickr and omg, you have done such an awesome job with that! Also, I would like to buy your word art page - maybe it's off brand, but can you make it available via etsy?
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 7, 2020 16:39:26 GMT
Yes - he's doing well. His state is doing better than ours is (pretty low bar there though - I'm in Florida) but the Navy hasn't relaxed its restrictions yet. He's an essential worker so he does go into base at least a couple of days of week which helps - living alone is hard during a pandemic. So glad he's healthy but I imagine the solitude must be hard for him, especially since he comes from a family with two parents and multiple siblings. Wishing him loads of fun distanced socialising like playing video games online with friends, Skype calls with the family, etc. You are my source in France, so I mentioned how you actually needed to document why you were going out, that's on a recent page. My oh my, just thinking of those pesky certificates to print and fill every time. It was anxiety-inducing. Great reminder that I need to stock up on printer paper + at least 2 extra ink cartridges for the second wave. I can see the French government reverting back to this paper system when we lock down again so I need to prepare! Gone are my carefree days and ways... I plan to make my pages more categorical, almost like a collage, esp for the things that happened in the beginning of lockdown in March/April. So a page about all the cleaning (wipes, santizier, etc), a page about all the baking/cooking, a page about the projects I was able to catch up on. I have a large series of photos of one of my cats on the table where we work, laying across laptops, chewing on laptops, laying on notes, etc, so that will probably be its own page too, intertwined with some stories about working from home. Oh, that's a fun approach, too! Pandemic thematics. I love all the people posting stuff about their little "helpers" during lockdown/work from home. It's got to be such a change for their daily lives too. "The humans are here 24/7, yo! Extra treats, extra treats, extra treats!"
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Post by karinec on Jul 7, 2020 17:08:19 GMT
I did a pandemic album for about 30 days, starting right before everything shut down and got really crazy here in CA. I shared a few pages on my crafty Insta, karinemakesstuff. It's my only saved story if you want to take a look. I stopped after 30 days because it felt like I was endlessly repeating bad news and it was really starting to bring me down. I felt like I captured what it felt like to have the whole world turned upside down, and the effects on our family - that was enough for me. I used a lot of digi files from AE from my Story Kit/Story Stamp sub, the Covid-19 freebies Ali shared and a few files from Kerri Bradford. This was my first all-digital album so there was quite a learning curve. I used a lot of memes, screenshots of news and texts and photos to tell the story. The last pages of my album are the timelines from Persnickety Prints. If you happen to check it out, the blacked out spot on the cover says, "Back the Fuck Up, Piglet".
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 18:06:38 GMT
just checked out your album in flickr and omg, you have done such an awesome job with that! Also, I would like to buy your word art page - maybe it's off brand, but can you make it available via etsy? Aww, thanks I'm happy to share the word art - it's here on google drive if you'd like to download it. It's a pdf - I hope that works. LMK if there's a better file format to use. Anyone who can use it is welcome to download it. It's a hodge podge of other people's digital elements and fonts. BTW I printed it on vellum to go over my intro page and it looks pretty cool.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 18:14:06 GMT
Great reminder that I need to stock up on printer paper + at least 2 extra ink cartridges for the second wave. I can see the French government reverting back to this paper system when we lock down again so I need to prepare! Gone are my carefree days and ways... Yeah, you don't want to be stuck inside for want of ink again. I'm already building a winter pantry in the basement, we've ordered a freezer so we can store more meals and meat (and icecream, let's be real), and I'm trying to think of all the things I used to get "just in time" that were hard to get in March and April. It's a different kind of minimalism... figuring out what's REALLY necessary. I'm mourning the low waste ways we used to have. The grocery stores aren't taking back paper bags, I can't bring my own egg carton, or use the bulk olive bar or bag your own bulk grains and snacks. The plastic bag ban was put on hold and the grocery pickers put every piece of produce in a bag... Maybe that whining will go in book 2.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 18:17:11 GMT
If you happen to check it out, the blacked out spot on the cover says, "Back the Fuck Up, Piglet". I put that one on my closing page! I remember looking at your pages when you first posted them. I don't blame you for only doing a month. It was all groundhog day after that anyway, plus a litany of bad news. A lot of my pages are focused on the first month but I didn't start actually making my journal until about 6 weeks in.
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 18:26:10 GMT
We have so little in terms of reliable information thanks to the suppression at the hands of the government (more testing equals more cases, hardy har har) that I have no real interest in recording statistics. And I realized that any day I picked to report stats would be eclipsed very soon after... I did note some day's numbers and then when they were 10 times higher a month later, and then when the numbers got so big it made the numbers from the month before seem like nothing... And then, yeah, who knows what the actual numbers are? But I have quite "enjoyed" documenting the "reality" as it was being presented, and then rewritten a few days later. I feel like my little book is a record for me so that I can recognize the gaslighting and show "no, you said the opposite last week!" FWIW Saving the first draft of the history of the virus: www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/21/999946/coronavirus-instagram-tumblr-journal-diary/
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Post by scrapcat on Jul 7, 2020 19:08:45 GMT
just checked out your album in flickr and omg, you have done such an awesome job with that! Also, I would like to buy your word art page - maybe it's off brand, but can you make it available via etsy? Aww, thanks I'm happy to share the word art - it's here on google drive if you'd like to download it. It's a pdf - I hope that works. LMK if there's a better file format to use. Anyone who can use it is welcome to download it. It's a hodge podge of other people's digital elements and fonts. BTW I printed it on vellum to go over my intro page and it looks pretty cool. Awesome! Tfs. So kind of you. I like the idea of a vellum page. It's funny because shortly after I read your post about "unprecedented", I started hearing it even moreso, from all walks of life, corners of the media, about everything.... it has become a running joke in my house!
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Post by joblackford on Jul 7, 2020 20:12:34 GMT
Aww, thanks I'm happy to share the word art - it's here on google drive if you'd like to download it. It's a pdf - I hope that works. LMK if there's a better file format to use. Anyone who can use it is welcome to download it. It's a hodge podge of other people's digital elements and fonts. BTW I printed it on vellum to go over my intro page and it looks pretty cool. Awesome! Tfs. So kind of you. I like the idea of a vellum page. It's funny because shortly after I read your post about "unprecedented", I started hearing it even moreso, from all walks of life, corners of the media, about everything.... it has become a running joke in my house! Insert giant eye roll. The use of the word unprecedented is truly unprecedented. someone (here or on IG) said it was more like “unpresidented” so I’m trying to work that into a page.
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Post by honeypea on Jul 8, 2020 13:50:35 GMT
My coronavirus documentation consists of one full page in my 2020 PL album, in March, when our schools closed and everything was being shutdown. It’s a brief explanation of what it is, what’s happening, headlines, Disney closing, how we’re preparing. After that I did not specifically mention COVID, though in documenting our daily life it’s observed naturally, you know? Talking about juggling teacher zoom meetings, navigating two dozen google classrooms (lord help me), etc. I think the only super specific mention to it was adding a photo of the NYT front page in May when we hit 100k lives lost. Other than that, pics of us in masks, etc. My senior having a drive-thru graduation.
I want to add in the printables from Persnickety, but couldn’t figure out how to print them. I came to the conclusion that they’re free downloads, but you have to order them to be printed from PP (??) I don’t know. (I’m terrible at that stuff).
Doing a whole album of documentation was not for me. I can see that sort of in-depth documentation perhaps being really interesting in the future, but my mental state couldn’t handle it. Crafting has been my escape from the stress and worry of the pandemic. A project focusing on it makes me feel panicked.
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Post by Linda on Jul 8, 2020 14:33:58 GMT
I want to add in the printables from Persnickety, but couldn’t figure out how to print them. I came to the conclusion that they’re free downloads, but you have to order them to be printed from PP (??) I don’t know. (I’m terrible at that stuff). , I drag and drop into my LibreOffice (like Word) document and resize by dragging the corners, and print from there.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 8, 2020 15:37:34 GMT
Awesome! Tfs. So kind of you. I like the idea of a vellum page. It's funny because shortly after I read your post about "unprecedented", I started hearing it even moreso, from all walks of life, corners of the media, about everything.... it has become a running joke in my house! Insert giant eye roll. The use of the word unprecedented is truly unprecedented. someone (here or on IG) said it was more like “unpresidented” so I’m trying to work that into a page. You need to make a pandemic checklist! ☐ unprecedented ☐ unpresidented ☐ unprepared
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 8, 2020 15:39:16 GMT
If you happen to check it out, the blacked out spot on the cover says, "Back the Fuck Up, Piglet". Very cool 30 Days of Pandemic! I love that Winnie the Pooh meme... Should totally add it to my mini!
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 8, 2020 15:49:20 GMT
I'm already building a winter pantry in the basement, we've ordered a freezer so we can store more meals and meat (and icecream, let's be real), and I'm trying to think of all the things I used to get "just in time" that were hard to get in March and April. It's a different kind of minimalism... figuring out what's REALLY necessary. This is one of the few times in life where I'm not completely aligned with my small life. We don't have a freezer at all. And no space for it. One kitchen cupboard (that also houses the vacuum cleaner and cleaning products ). A small under-the-counter fridge. There was a solid 4-5 weeks where we had to ration food to make it to the next grocery pick-up order. I could barely relate to all the scrapbookers and documenters who were posting about their new normal on social media. My pandemic life was so far removed from theirs. In this particular instance, I'm jealous of people with extra space for a freezer or some kind of makeshift pantry. I'm currently emptying a little nook in our small living room to fit some dry foods + preserves + TP. That'll have to go in my album as well. Gah. I wonder what this'll do to our collective mindset as a society. We're bound to regress to some extent to our grandparents' world war hoarding ways, eep.
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Post by Linda on Jul 8, 2020 16:00:41 GMT
In this particular instance, I'm jealous of people with extra space for a freezer or some kind of makeshift pantry. I'm currently emptying a little nook in our small living room to fit some dry foods + preserves + TP. That'll have to go in my album as well. Gah. I wonder what this'll do to our collective mindset as a society. We're bound to regress to some extent to our grandparents' world war hoarding ways, eep. I would definitely stress without my freezer and pantry space but I'm finding that overall -I'm buying less now and I have a BIG stack of boxes headed to donation at this point. We've had more time to downsize and also the time to realise that if we're not using it NOW when we have plenty of time, we're not going to use it in some nebulous 'someday'
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 8, 2020 16:08:35 GMT
In this particular instance, I'm jealous of people with extra space for a freezer or some kind of makeshift pantry. I'm currently emptying a little nook in our small living room to fit some dry foods + preserves + TP. That'll have to go in my album as well. Gah. I wonder what this'll do to our collective mindset as a society. We're bound to regress to some extent to our grandparents' world war hoarding ways, eep. I would definitely stress without my freezer and pantry space but I'm finding that overall -I'm buying less now and I have a BIG stack of boxes headed to donation at this point. We've had more time to downsize and also the time to realise that if we're not using it NOW when we have plenty of time, we're not going to use it in some nebulous 'someday' Oh, I agree that less is more generally speaking. But after the first coronavirus lockdown, I can already notice changes with my food storage habits. I used to pick up just what I needed on my way back home from work. I would just stop at one of the small inner city supermarkets while walking back or the green grocer's in my street. We'd pick up a bit of food every other day. Two bananas, one cucumber, four eggs and a tin of chickpeas one day. A few oranges, some tofu and fresh baby spinach another day. Now, I'm grabbing bread yeast whenever it's available and slowly building a TP + dark chocolate reserve. Pre-2020 me would see my kitchen counter right now and be like:
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Jul 8, 2020 16:34:11 GMT
I'm going back and starting at the beginning, basically January cause that's also when we here in Arizona had our 1st case and it was at a state collegewhere our nephew was attending, so we where a bit panicked. I'm just going thru my camera roll cause I knew since this started I wanted to document it so I took pictures of everything, from day 1 when DH went to the store and called me and said there is no chicken in March and I told him take a picture! To screenshots of memes, stories in the news, the nation's obsession with Tiger King as we where in lockdown, to my own families struggles and daily new normal. So I'm just going thru and printing and searching the internet for stuff if there is something I want that I didn't get. There of course will be all the birthday's, holidays and celebrations we have celebrated in lockdown and how different it is for us cause we are so used to being with our large extended family. I'm especially doing screenshots of news articles and occasional pics of the TV as I'm in Arizona and we unfortunately, cause of our idiot Governor, have been on the national news so much cause we are 1 of the top states with numbers that are out of control😔 Here is what I have done so far. It's a work in progress, still needs journaling and will have smaller inserts interspersed throughout. Had to edit the size of the photos!!
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