#flipphone

[lokisdarlingvalkyrie]

~Autumn aesthetic dumb phone 🎃🍁

Sometimes you just need a flip phone to disconnect from social media

[four-alligators-in-a-trenchcoat]

What do I do without a smartphone?

When I got a dumbphone/flipphone, I immediately started living a super cool super fulfilling life! I travelled a ton, ran a marathon, immediately got good at art, read 4 books in a day, and now have 22 close friends! Thats exactly how it works, i'm not lying AT ALL, trust me ;)

...ahhh okay you got me, thats not actually what happened.

Yes my life did change, and all for the better! I do have a cooler and more fulfilling life now, but not like that, I just started living a regular life? This little post is about what that looks like these days (for me)

First, a little bit of math. My screen time with a smartphone was 5.5 hours on a good day and almost 9 on a bad: about an average of 7.25 hours a day. Ive been smartphone-less for a little over about 5 months; just about 170 days.

Average 7.25/hrs a day x 170 days = 1232.5 hours total/24hrs

51 full 24-hour days I got back.

ALMOST TWO MONTHS OUT OF THE FIVE

- Alright, i've never done that math before, holy shiitake mushrooms thats insane. Back on topic, oh my god I would have spent 2 months out of the past 5 entirely on my phone

What do I do instead? What consumes the hours? Or the in-passing minutes?

I live normally, just without a phone honestly, it didn't make me suddenly want to run a marathon or just turn into Picasso day one. It just gave me back the opportunity to live.

I turned to my hobbies, like ceramics, reading, journalling to bring the simple joys back into my everyday!

I stopped being able to distract myself from how icky I felt when I didn't move my body, so I slowly started swimming again!

I started to blog a little! Thanks for reading :D

I got bored at home, so I started seeking out social spaces and hanging out in person with friends and prioritizing making them!

Those are huge things, really big, hour by hour things that take up my life now. I am still a student, in a demanding major, who tries to study 5 hours a day, and I work part-time. Is that the most prominent change? Absolutely, but in the minutes passing between tasks, before I leave somewhere, waiting for something there is also a little mojo added back into my day. I would have been spending those little snippets of time pacifying myself on a quick scroll, 20-30 reels on IG that I would never remember. Instead those morsels are spent...

Doing nothing! Sitting around is a forgotten joy, don't be afraid to be alone with yourself, its the only way you will get to know you.

Sudoku! If i've got 5-10 mins waiting somewhere and feel up for the task, a quick sudoku from the little book I carry around is great.

Tidying up/cleaning! I mentioned this in a past blog post, but it's easier to keep the space around you tidy when you reclaim those little minuets while your breakfast is cooking or your waiting for the water to boil. Bagel still in the toaster? Why not give the kitchen a quick sweep! Coffee is steeping? Wouldn't you know it, thats how long it takes for me to unload the dishwasher! (still a student living at home, that dishwasher is a FULL 4-person dishwasher man)

People watching, takin' a quick ol' gander at your surroundings. Make sure you haven't forgotten what life looks like, or what the general population is up to.

I still spend some time on Tumblr, Reddit, and Pinterest, its not like I went cold turkey or that I'll never see social media again. Its easier to live your life when you have the time, and its easier to have the time when you don't have a monster algorithm in your pocket built to addict you. You can do it! Do it at the pace that is good for you, but get those two months back!

☆ a photo of my cat for good luck ☆

[kismekotka]

flip phone zine.

pdfs available here

print it share it get a flip phone ditch your smartphone today!

[cupids-stimboards]

foptober stimboards - day 2 board based off: chloe carmicheal

📱 🐤 📒 / 🧸 x 🧸 / 📒 🐤 📱

[planet-deltron]

CTIA Wireless 2004

Phone Scoop (phonescoop.com) CTIA Wireless 2004 Nokia, Siemens, and Kyocera mobile phones.

Found this on Google images and clicked onto this relic of a website. The sleek silver phone designs from back then looked so futuristic and despite their limitations, had an awesome amount of features.

[jacobhalton]

[freakjectum]

*snaps flipphone shut around my cock and balls* YEEEEEOOOOOUCH !!! 💥

[hec-chan]

💖🍮 My phone charms are very worth it 💖🍮 #phonecharms #kawaii #gyaru #flipphone #pompompurin #bansevendeadlysins #pocky #anime #sanrio #strawberry

[emolonersblog]

[lokisdarlingvalkyrie]

Everything is cute now 🩷🎀✨💕

[four-alligators-in-a-trenchcoat]

This joy is not your own, quit living the borrowed life!!!

Social media and the algorithm is like sugar water for your soul instead of milk, you will not sustain on it, and you can not continue to neglect growing your own roots. You reap what you sow! Love is for those who love the work! Let others inspire you, let your community motivate you, but please God learn to love the work. Have days where you create without looking at Pinterest when you get lost, let it take hours, let it take days! What are you trying to be free of? The LIVING? The miraculous task of it? - feeling very fired up by the poem "For the Student who used AI to write a Paper" by Joseph Fasano and a small line from Blue Period where Yatora says 'this joy is not my own' while watching TV. Its so easy to not do things when you can get the dopamine by watching other people do those things, but gosh does is slowly poison you and your soul. If you feel like you are not living your life, consider your choices, one of the being a flip-phone, please life can be so much better :3 Ask yourself what I did and still do:

When is the last time I felt joy of my own creation and accomplishment?

How much do I spend in the fields of boredom, the birthplace of imagination?

Where does my artistic soul flow from when its not curated by other people’s work?

[leop4rdprintt]

i'm gonna sharing tips from aprill

[aphroditenyan]

♡eternal happiness tonight♡

[jacobhalton]

[esketchbewk]

Flip Phone

[heavensgateranch]

on da flippy