Dude I Got In A Car Accident Nothing Major Just A Little Fender Bender But That's Exactly It I Thought

Dude I got in a car accident nothing major just a little fender bender but that's exactly it I thought that I was doing everything right and it's been really hard on me

Help us get out of an abusive home

Hey, we're currently in the process of saving up money for a deposit on a flat, paying off credit card debt and having some money in savings for getting settled in a new place.

We're living with our m/m rn, and she's heavily emotionally, psychologically and economically abusive, she takes any money we do earn so its next to impossible to save up anything for getting out of here.

If you can't help please reblog, we desperately need to get out of here for our own mental health

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reblog this and put in the tags how many alarms you have on your phone, including the ones that aren’t set

Something I find really interesting about the zero waste movement is how much it is just things poor people already do but made aesthetic.

So for background I grew up in really bad poverty in a very rural community born to a 4th generation Teen Mom. My great-grandmother was one of the 13 born around the Great Depression and was raised in the Backwoods of Kentucky to say we were poor would be an understatement

We lived "sustainably" and "zero waste/low waste" because it was necessary

My great-grandmother always reused everything. She washed her aluminum foil and even her Ziploc bags, to be honest I do the same thing we never had paper towels growing up and we certainly didn't have any fancy "unpaper" towels we had old rags. paper towels were a luxury item that we simply could not afford (I would like to mention that napkins and paper towels are compostable)

Old Mason jars were basically the only cups we had.

Reusable menstrual products are also not new, poor women without access to disposable menstrual products have been using old cloths and rags forever I will admit the nice bamboo and cotton ones are more comfortable than a folded up old peice of t shirt

Growing your own food and cooking from scratch as well as foraging are all necessary when you live too far from a grocery store or even a town.

Thrift store clothes and hand me downs or even "upcycled" clothes were all the standard for my family while I was growing up.

To be clear I think it's great that people who have more money and access are getting into these types of things I just found it funny that I've been living like this my whole life out of necessity.

I've noticed a lot of people calling out zero waste movement as classist and inaccessible and I definitely can understand why, a lot of people see the aesthetic part of it and think you need to buy all these specialty items but the truth is you don't many of the popular zero waste swaps are either traditional ways of doing things (cloth napkins vs paper) or exactly what people in poverty have been doing for generations

If you are interested in zero waste or similar lifestyles I would like to offer some advice don't throw out the things that you have the plastic or any of that use it until you can't use it reuse as many ways as you can think of and don't fall into the Trap of thinking you have to go out and buy all of this fancy bamboo toothbrushes or metal straws just try to avoid excessive packaging.

Some pronoun stuff I made a lil bit ago!!

Some gendery activities to try out

make a playlist for your gender

play choices/episodes as a gender you don’t usually play as

draw your gender

describe your gender without using words like masculine, feminine, or gender

pretend you’re Anthony J Crowley

find all the gendery clothes you own. wear all of them at once.

research a gender you don’t know much about

think about a fictional character and how they might feel about gender

compare genders with someone else

paint your nails and pretend you’re Brian David Gilbert

get a piercing. doesn’t matter where.

style your hair in a way you’ve never styled it before

pick an element from the periodic table. that’s your gender now.

put on the highest heels you can find

if you have body hair, think about how it would feel not to. if you don’t have body hair, think about what it would feel like to have it.

research the role of gender in different cultures and mythologies

make up a new pronoun set

consider whether or not your romantic orientation/sexuality has an effect on your gender

write some gendery poetry. doesn’t have to be good

dye your hair with cheap hair dye that washes out easily

make a craft that represents your gender