The next thing I decided to try out was this basic little closet shelf that probably every person has except me and I am guilty of judging these things harshly because they're not cute. At least in my opinion but then again, who cares? It's supposed to make your life easier.

Anyhoo, this one was about $10 on Amazon as well and bought just one to see if I liked it or if it would work me. If I didn't like it or it didn't give me enough closest space, I had planned on giving it to my roommate or just returning it if she didn't want it either.

This one has 5 shelves and also has six pockets on the side of the shelf, 3 on either side. I liked that the material appeared a little thicker and once I actually got it in, it was pretty sturdy and easy to install. It has a metal brace on the top to keep the shelf from losing its shape and it fits nicely in my closet.

I folded up some items that I didn't really reach for that often but don't necessarily want to pack away for the summer. On the top shelves I folded up my sweatshirts since I sometimes reach for them if I get cold or want to chill outside at night on my patio.

I also folded up my hoodies and thinner sweaters and finally, folded up my sweatpants and loungewear on the bottom shelf. I reach for my sweatpants quite often whenever I'm just chilling at home and don't really have plans for the day or I just want to be comfy while I work on my blog, cleaning, errands around the house, etc.

I also slid my belts into the side pockets and I'm actually really happy about the pockets. I didn't think I would use them but now I don't have to buy an organizer for all my belts and my most worn ones are in the top two pockets.

I liked this organizer so much that I decided to get a second one for my miscellaneous items that I didn't want to put away or put in my under-the-bed organizer as I still reach for them enough to keep them in my closet.

On the top shelves, I folded up my "nice tees" that I had hanging, they're either very oversized that I like to wear as dresses or they have some sort of tie or nicer detailing on the front. I also folded up a couple of concert tees since I don't want those getting wrinkled. They were EXPENSIVE, okay?

The next two cubes I folded up my work uniforms (since I won't be needing those for a while *cries in 32 languages*) and also folded my workout leggings and jackets since I always seem to struggle to find those when they're hanging.

The last cube I used for my pajamas instead of just throwing them on the floor of my closet because that's not cute. It's quite nice having a specific place to put my pj's to keep them clean and easily accessible. Check out this organizer here for your purses, shoes, clothes, or whatever else you want to organize: 5 Shelf Hanging Closet Organizer.

 Finally, after hanging up my shelves, I slipped in my shoe rack and place all my remaining shoes onto the rack that I didn't have room for on the shelf in my room. I actually moved my shoes around a bit from that shelf to this one and vice-versa. Mostly all my everyday shoes are now on this rack in my closet like my sneakers, Vans, and sports shoes.

I also used the top and very bottom shelves for my boots. The bottom two shelves hold my "season round" boots as I like to say and the top shelf holds my fall and winter boots like my cowboy boots and knee-highs. I really like how my closet looks now as there's nothing on my floor anymore save for a couple of boxes with my heavy winter wear packed away. But other than that. my closet is where I would like for it to be for now. Eventually, I would like to reorganize my purses but we'll get to that later

I hope you all enjoyed organizing with me and hopefully, this gives you some ideas on how to organize your own closet or room or whatever since I know I always get the sudden urge to organize everything in my apartment after watching an organizing video at 2am. Like a normal human. Anyhoo, stay tuned for more posts and let me know what you want to organize in your own life, I would love to know. Until next time!

LESSON #1: UNPLUG/TURN OFF WHATEVER YOU'RE NOT USING

LESSON #2: FOOD GOES A LONGER WAY THAN YOU THINK

LESSON #3: FIND YOUR STORES THAT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY

One of the worst habits I have and I think probably a lot of people have, is buying way too many journals, notebooks and planners to help keep themselves organized . . . and never using a single page out of any of the 58 journals they've purchased. I can honestly say that all the notebooks I have are not getting any use other than the occasional to-do list and maybe to take a few quick notes about something for work or just writing random lists of things like movies I want to watch or shopping lists.

Other than that, I just buy journals because they're cute, you can never have enough and the aesthetic. Obviously good enough reasons, am I right? But I had always known about bullet journaling and I never really did much research on it or even tried to figure out what it was used for. I've been wanting to get into bullet journaling for a long time now and so when the new year came around, I thought I would just try it out for the year of 2020 and see how it went for me.

I have had so many planners in the past and journals galore that I just never was able to stick to. I tried all kinds of planners from Erin Condren to Dollar Store planners, cute little journals and desk top calendars as well as art journaling and just the plain old journaling your feelings out on a blank sheet of paper for me to get my thoughts together. I was able to stick to journaling for a pretty long time until it just became a little bit too much for me. But now, since I have a lot of things that I want to do this year and things I want to accomplish, I thought that bullet journaling might be the best route for me to go down since after doing more research and watching one too many bullet journal set-up videos, I learned that it was a little bit of everything. Writing lists, keeping track of habits and important dates, fun trackers for every day life and a lot more creative freedom which I really liked about the whole bullet journal aspect.


I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to stick to it, however, considering that I hadn't been able to stick to any kind of planner system in the past. I think my biggest issue with planners that made it hard for me to stick to was that I couldn't really use every single page in planners the way I wanted to or even find pages that worked for me. I liked the basic calendar month as well as the weekly spreads but I always felt like the months-at-a-glance or even the daily pages for every month were such a waste of space and I never used them. I think I just got bored of the planners because even though there are many different ways to personalize a planner, nothing worked for me. It didn't matter how many stickers or cute washi tape I put on the pages, it was just too much of a hassle.




So, fast forward and here we are bullet journaling our lives away. I've only had my bullet journal for about two months and I have to say, this is the longest I've ever been able to keep up with a planner/journal system. One of my favorite things about it is that every page can be literally anything you want it to be. You can add as many pages for every month as you want or just simply do something creative to break up all the spreads and you can literally create your own planning system. I really can't express how nice it feels to know that I've finally found a planner that works for me simply because I'm the one who created it. It's 100% entirely personalized to me and it feels very satisfying.



As someone who can't always keep my thoughts organized, it's really nice to be able to put everything in one place and flip back and forth between the things I'm keeping track of as well as having one spot to look for any important dates or events coming up, keeping track of the books I'm reading, my favorite songs, to-do lists for the month and so on. I also struggle a lot with anxiety and always have but in recent months, it was very hard for me to function on a day to day basis. Having this journal for me to sit down and take five minutes and do something creative and give my brain something to focus in on and keep my life organized has actually been a big help. It's therapeutic for me and not nearly as stressful as most planners are for me.

I'm very much a person of habit. I always order the exact same things from restaurants, I have a nighttime routine that if it isn't followed to a T, it throws me off, I have a specific way I like to do things like cleaning, doing my makeup and just certain habits that I hate having get disturbed by something. With bullet journaling, it's very organized. It's very specific with even the placement of any kind of writing or stickers you put in or the monthly spreads you create. I like being able to have complete control over how my planner looks and what kind of information goes into it and being able to change the pages or add new ones or sprinkle in personalized pages for specific months is pretty awesome.

My experience with the whole bullet journal system has been pretty good so far. I think one of the major things I love about it that's keeping me focused on it is how every page is made for me, by me. I love finally having a planner that's also doubling as a journal, art journal, a notebook, and combining all of my favorite elements of all these different types of journals and planners into one book. I'm able to stay organized, keep track of the important things like finances, dates, upcoming events, how many books I've read in a year and more all while having fun with it and being creative in the spreads I make and how I decorate them. I think if you're struggling to also find a planner system that works for you, try bullet journaling. There is absolutely no pressure on having the cutest or prettiest planner ever since everyone has a different approach to it and how they go about decorating their pages and spreads.

I love being able to just simply leave out any journal pages that I don't like and swapping them for my own ideas, it's so easy to find spreads that work for me personally without having to go out and buy a completely new planner just for it, which I love. I'm glad I finally got into it and hopefully, I'll be keeping up with this planner system for many years to come. Wish me luck!

So 2019 was both the best and the worst year of my life. That's not me being dramatic at all, it truly was a roller coaster of ups and downs, more ups than 2018 that's for sure. I got to accomplish a lot of things in the year of 2019 that I will never forget. I had a lot of growing up, a lot of healing and learning more about myself, I met a lot of amazing people that will always have a place in my heart and I got to achieve one of my biggest dreams, going to Paris, France. LIKE WHAT?!


I've always seen mood boards floating around on Pinterest and Tumblr, but never really looked into them before. Recently I've been seeing quite a lot of mood-board-making videos on YouTube so I thought that maybe it was something I should learn more about. Mood boards are based on "The Law Of Attraction." This simply means that whatever you put out into the universe, you will then receive. In other words, you will gain and achieve your goals if you believe it already exists. I did achieve a lot of dreams of mine in 2019, but I also put a lot of them on the back-burner and put my life on hold because other people needed me or I felt the timing wasn't right or I simply felt like it was a waste of time to even try going for these goals. Which is never a good thing to do seeing as your life is in your hands and if you can't believe in yourself, then who will?


I wanted my mood board to have every big goal of mine that I knew I wanted to achieve or at least try going for in the year of 2020. I have small things such as dying my hair a different color or adopting a dog, all the way up to big goals such as traveling to New York City with my best friend and traveling overseas to either London or Italy.

Of course I have some fun things too that I would love to achieve, such as seeing my favorite group perform in concert once again!





My goals for 2020 are as follows:

1. Be more of a minimalist.
2. Focus on my photography.
3. Dye my hair Emerald Green.
4. Adopt a Husky!
5. Move out into my own apartment (with my bff!)
6. Get my dream car.
7. See BTS perform on their 2020 Tour.
8. Travel to a different country.
9. Go to New York City with my best friend.
10. Study ART in college.
11. Learn to let things go.
12. Be thankful for what people have taught me.
13. Be more creative, unapologetically.
14. Fall in love again.
15. Live everyday fearlessly.
16. Put more love into the world.

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Hello there! To start off, I've always thought of myself as a good saver. Being the young adult that I am, I like to think sometimes I have my life together and I know where I'm going in life and know exactly how to get there. They're all lies. I have no idea what I'm doing besides how to successfully binge watch all three seasons of Stranger Things and how to comfortably take naps all day long.

At some point, most recently actually, I've realized I'm actually not the best saver ever. Don't get me wrong, I'm young and am not really expecting to know how to save money efficiently and know how to budget myself, but at the same time I want to be that one young adult that knows how to do those things. I like knowing that I'll be able to put a good chunk of money away into my savings again and again and slowly see the number get bigger and prettier as time goes on.

I've actually begun my "Money Saving Journey" in the previous couple of months because I was forced to realize just how important it is to save money. Mostly because, well, I'm going to Paris in 10 ten days and I'm panicking but let's not talk about that. Over the past few months, I've been slowly paying for hotels, bus tours, tour guide packages, etc. Along with having to buy a suitcase, backpack, travel-size everything and much more, my pennies were being stretched.

So. I decided to try and find little ways here and there and come up with strategies that best work for me to be able to save a lot more money and have a much more successful time when it comes to saving my dollar bills. So, if you're interested in knowing how to save money no matter if you're making $7 an hour or $200 an hour, maybe these simple and easy tips will help you to start saving money for the things you want most.

• Make your lunch the night before so you have more time to think about your meal and plan it. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, there are plenty of healthy lunches that require zero cooking that are quick, simple, and filling.
• Research your meals and what you want to cook or put together for the whole week so that each day, you know exactly what you're going to put in your lunch bag every day.
• Make your meals for the next work week and store them all in ready-to-go containers. Simply just by preparing your lunches and keeping them in the fridge allows you to quickly grab your lunch as you're running out the door and also gives you some variety every morning.

I personally keep a journal and every single time I "zero out" my checking account, I write it down in my book. At the end of every month, I'm able to see how much I've saved just by moving the odd amount of change from my checking account and it takes no effort. You can either transfer money for every day you DON'T spend money, which is what I do, or you can "zero-out" your checking account every single day. Either way, you're saving money little by little and it will pay off in the long run.

It's a simple way to keep track of saving pocket change and if someone out there wants an example of how I keep track of my finances in my journals, just let me know!
Not only will your budget make you think twice about using your $20 on a $15 t-shirt and you still have lunch to buy later, but it will also make you ask yourself if you're making an impulse buy or if it's something you actually love and want to own.

Eventually, you'll get used to second guessing yourself and starting wondering if you really need another pair of black booties when you already have five pairs that look very similar or maybe it's just a cute top that your friends are all telling you to get but it's not really your style. No matter the case, if you just learn to discipline yourself, it actually can be quite easy to save those extra dollars and put it towards something you're hoping to achieve. Such as a trip to Paris!