The Content Housewife

unfuckyourhabitat:

replied to your post: Is there a way to get the UFYH prompts without…

You could also tag all of the stories “ufyh stories” or something like that, and then they could get Tumblr Savior and blacklist that tag.

replied to your post: Is there a way to get the UFYH prompts…

Of course it’s up to everyone to manage their experience…that doesn’t mean people can’t come up with a new/good idea. I just read that one and thought it was a good idea…not to mention I love simply the idea of “UFYH stories”. And not everyone has a “before and after” - a lot of the stories are “how i made this work for me” or whatever, and don’t really have anything to do with “this is how it looked before, this is how it looked after”. “UFYH stories” might even be more all-encompassing of a title.

At any rate, I didn’t mean to be annoying by agreeing with the original suggestion, I just thought it was a really cute/great idea of a new way to possibly consider things, that was all.

itinerantvae:

unfuckyourhabitat:

thispowertounmake:

YO, can we rap for a few about the response to this “LOL, PC app” business?

1.) i totally get that you don’t have to be doing any of this, and you’ve put a lot of blood/sweat/tears/money into the iphone app to start with,…

Well to be honest, THIS response was quite a bit more demeaning, less civil, and a lot more rude than UFYH’s original answer to that ask.

I’m not old, I’m 25, and I still didn’t know that AIM and such were called “PC apps”. To me they are “software programs” - I guess I’m just uneducated as well (as is my husband, with a degree in computer science and has a job as a software engineer, whose brain also would not have immediately jumped from “oh, they want a PC app? I know what that is!” but would have at least had to think and go, “Oh, maybe they mean a software program?” He also adds that he considers “apps” as far as phones go and “applications” as far as AIM or Windows Live Messenger (not MSN messenger anymore, by the way, since you’re so “up” on everything) to be different things.

So you go on and tell us all how astonishing it is that we’re all so freakin’ stupid. I hope it makes you feel better about yourself, as that - and not politely explaining something - was clearly your goal. Good job.

Honestly, your approach of “yes, you CAN do 20 minutes a day, no excuses!” is what made me love this blog - and what changed *my* life. I really don’t want to see this to turn into a cuddly, lovey-dovey “every snowflake is special” blog, because there are plenty of those out there - where someone is there to tell you “oh, it’s okay! Of course the fact that you want to sit on the computer is more important, you don’t have to do anything more than that!” If that’s what you need, then go find one of them - unfuck your habitat is “terrifying motivation for lazy people” on principle. If the “terrifying motivation” approach doesn’t work for you, then the blog isn’t for you - it’s pretty simple. I don’t think it’s fair for anyone to expect you to change the tone and feel of your blog - that, may I just say, is what attracted so many people to START with - because they don’t enjoy it.

Bottom line is, if this is to turn into a blog about how “well, maybe you could just kind of get off the computer for 5 minutes and wash a plate, and then WELL DONE YOU DID EVERYTHING YOU NEEDED TO DO EVER YOU ARE THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!” rather than the standard “yes, you can get off your butt for 5 minutes and do some dishes, now DO IT”…I’m not going to follow it anymore, because it’s not even close to the same thing, and the “babying everything” approach has NEVER worked for me, and this DOES.

I understand the posts you have sometimes about people dealing with depression, or an illness that prevents them from doing 20 minutes at a time, or whatever other problems people have - and I appreciate those, even as someone who isn’t dealing with it, because I think it shows how caring you are, and how much you truly WANT us to succeed. And that’s fine. But turning the entire blog in that direction isn’t helpful to anyone EXCEPT those dealing with those issues.

Anyway, that’s my personal little opinion, that has no bearing on anyone else, but you asked what WE wanted…and for me, I want it to stay just like it is, because THAT is what drew me to you, THAT is what helped me.

unfuckyourhabitat:

Prompted by recent criticisms, I would like to re-write some of the older posts from the archives that have been recently resurrected (including, but not limited to, the Fundamentals post) to be more inclusive and more representative of this blog as a whole and of Team UfYH as a community….