One of the many piles of paper I struggled with this year...
Clean Your Room is a podcast by a regular person who is just trying to be a little more organized.
Hosted by Alethea Allarey
Season 1 Episode 13: Tame Your Paper releases at 12:00 am on Friday, June 4, 2021
Super cute logo illustrated by Ashlyn Anstee
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Show Notes for Season 1, Episode 13: Tame Your Paper
Sponsor: Anchor.fm
Alethea shares recent Netflix and reading recommendations and talks about taming paper clutter.
Netflix Recs
Hoarders - Season 11 Episode 3's extreme hoarder is named Althia. Just saying.
Bo Burnham: Inside - dark humor, TW: suicide, NSFW - super funny and beautiful music
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story is Season 2. Season 1 (John Meehan) is also terrific. There are podcasts for both seasons that preceded the television adaptations of these true crime stories.
Interior Design Masters - And you can read about the Knit Shop challenge here.
Book Recommendations
The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt
Publishes June 15, 2021
@afrominimalist on Instagram
Order the book from my local indie bookshop, Once Upon a Time
Order the book from my friend Kathy's bookshop
Support Brain Lair Bookshop on Bookshop.org - Black-Woman Owned and Independent
Atomic Habits by James Clear
You can also order this book from the above shops -- just search!
Recent Gems from Apartment Therapy
Digital Paper
- Notability
- GoodNotes - and some tips from them on how to cut back on paper waste
- Evernote
- Notion
- Paper by FiftyThree
Opt out at CatalogChoice (catalogs and mail offers), OptOutPreScreen (credit card offers), or the FTC, which recommends DMAchoice.
Also, if you shop at a place that gives mile-long receipts, you can see if you can go paperless.
Here's the link for opting out of printed receipts at CVS: https://www.cvs.com/content/digital-receipt
AAPI Resources
- Stop AAPI Hate
- PBS: What you can do to fight violence and racism against Asian Americans
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- GoFundMe: #StopAsianHate
- commUNITY Action Fund
- Red Canary Song
- National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
- Free Bystander Intervention Training
- Harper's Bazaar: Asian-American and AAPI Organizations to Support
AAPI Owned and Operated Businesses
- JjengasPlants (check their Instagram posts in case there's a coupon available)
- Cake Girl (vegan! gluten-free! allergen-free!)
- Black Smoke (Itim Usok - Jewelry, charms, and personal care by my cousin Adri)
- Uncover LA (retail and fashion site by my cousin Danielle)
- Tatang - My favorite local Filipino restaurant
- Boba Guys and probably pretty much every boba place out there that is about to run out of boba
- Bachan's, my fave Japanese BBQ sauce
- Fly by Jing, my fave Zhong dumpling sauce (and more)
- Auria's Malaysian Kitchen, trust me--you need some pandan kaya.
- Bookhou, who does the best punch needle IMHO
- Mallory with the Flowers
- A list from Good Housekeeping
- A list from Self Magazine
- A list from House Beautiful
- Mama Los Angeles amplifies food businesses
Black Lives Matter
- Black Lives Matter movement
- BLM Carrd
- Being Antiracist (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- NPR: 'Not Racist' Is Not Enough: Putting in the Work to be Anti-Racist
- Vox: What It Means to Be Antiracist
- BBIMP explained (removing language "of color" and "POC" to de-center whiteness)
- The 1619 Project
- A list from AIGA, the professional association for design
- A resource list from FutureLearn
- U of Washington resource list for non-black melanated people
Anti-Blackness and Racism in Filipino Culture
These are resources I had to share with my own mother who still has colonizer-influenced views on racism, of the all-lives-matter, stop-seeing-color variety.
- OneDwnMedia: Unlearning Anti-Blackness in Filipino Culture - this is excellent and brief IMHO. Seriously, it's a great channel of info -- check them out here.
- LAist: How a 'Secret Asian Man' Embraced Anti-Racism
- FYLPro: It's time to talk to your parents, titos and titas about internalized racism
- EsquireMagPh: Racism in the Philippines: Does It Exist?
- Bonus: On Being Asked to Change "Black Lives Matter" to "All Lives Matter" because I felt my mother would be more likely to listen to a spiritual person and he explains it very well. Certainly better than I could on Facebook at 6 am when I read her comments and my brain exploded.
These lists are by no means comprehensive, but I will continue to work on them and make them available.
Support Independent Bookstores! Independent Bookstore Day is April 24th
Once Upon a Time in Montrose, CA 📚
Brain Lain Books Online and Pop Up 🧠
The Ripped Bodice: A Romantic Bookstore 💕
Vroman's Bookstore 💚
Passion Planner
Get $5 off with my Passion Planner referral link (I get $5 off too!)
or just go to passionplanner.com
FYI - The rest of the links are not affiliate/referral links, just the $5 Passion Planner one above.
Participate in #cleanyourroompodcastchallenge!
Take a before photo of your space -- make sure there's nothing of a private nature, like your home address or the like, or any humans in the photo who have not/are unable to consent to being included in the image.
Clean up, then take an after photo. You can take video too, and share multiples of each, since Instagram allows up to 10 photos or videos in a multi-media post.
You can tell us whatever you want in the captions, but make sure you put the hashtag #cleanyourroompodcastchallenge in there somewhere! We might choose to share/repost some posts and stories as well if your profile is public.
Extra credit: use Instagram's Alt Text feature to provide a description for people with visual impairments. Find out how here!
Ask me a question
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I'm not yet scheduling guest appearances from people I don't know personally. If you are someone I know from pre-podcast, please reach out. If you are someone I don't know... reach out anyway! I'd be happy to hear from you. Email info@cleanyourroompodcast.com.
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