Misconceptions of Lifestyle Bloggers

If you are an outsider you may not know, but this blogging thing is all divided up like the lunch tables at the cafeteria in high school. We have the fashion bloggers, the mom bloggers, the foodie bloggers, the DIY bloggers, the healthy bloggers, the wedding bloggers, and then there's those of us who seem to only talk about ourselves every day and we call ourselves the lifestyle bloggers.

Here's the deal, I kind of hate being grouped into that category. There's a lot of negative connotations that go with the whole lifestyle blogging thing and today I'm here to clear some things up.

Let me clear my throat. 

Misconceptions of Lifestyle Bloggers

*Disclaimer: This is not meant to be taken seriously or to offend anyone who enjoys Erin Condren Planners and/or chevron and suck buns.*

1. Erin Condren planners are our bible.
False. So false. While I'm sure there's a solid handful of lifestyle bloggers who can't get dressed in the morning without their glorified paper weights EC planners, I'm here to tell you that the majority of us can't stand them. They're really just unnecessarily large and in charge.

Personally, the two I've wasted my hard earned doll hairs on are nothing more than dust collecting, space taker-uppers on my shelf. The worst part? That one on the far right... never been written in once. 60 cold, hard dollars of waste right there, my friends.

2. We drink Starbucks errry day, alll day. 
Neg.A.Tive. Again, while there are those lifestyle bloggers who insist on shoving their Instagrammed Starbucks cup photos down your throat every single day, let me just say that the majority of us don't get down like that.

In my case, I can't afford a damn $5 cup of coffee every day. I can't speak for everyone but I'm going to assume this probably goes for plenty others.

I'm either snagging the free coffee in front office of my apartment complex or I'm all over my Keurig.
If I have K-cups...

For the record: If you can afford it, more power to ya. I'd be all over that iced green tea if I could.

3. We think everyone who doesn't agree with us is jealous of us.

Nope, just the annoying ones who give us a bad name and make us look like clowns via Twitterama. Again, there's a solid amount of us that just realize that you can't please everyone and there are people who plain just don't like you, and I like to think that most of us are totally cool with that.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. 

Or blog?

4. We think we have the perfect life.

This is probably the one that makes me want to vomit the most, really. I read a shit ton of blogs on the daily that are guilty of this, so I understand why this is a misconception of lifestyle bloggers but, dammit, there's eleventy billion of us who know, damn right well, that our shit isn't perfect. 

I think this one is a misconception because a lot of people simply don't choose to share anything but positivity, and that's totally cool because it's your blog and you write what you want, but mostly it's just hard to relate to. At least for me it is. 

Clearly I don't have that filter. It happens.

5. We're always photo ready.
This one makes me giggle, mostly because I'm pretty sure this is the one that everyone already knows doesn't relate to me. Hence the blog name... and the fact that I'm currently sitting at my desk with 3 day hair in a messy bun and a little bit of yesterday's makeup that chose to stick around overnight.

I guess I can agree that no one really enjoys posting a bad photo, so I get this misconception. However, I can whole heartedly say that this next photo is actually more flattering than anything I could pass off right now. Even if I put sunglasses on...

6. We are obsessed with chevron.
Actually, I think this one might not be much of a misconception... but, believe it or not, we all don't have a chevron wall in our house and a closet full of chevron dresses. I know this one comes as a shock to those of you who have negative feelings towards us lifestyle peoplez but it's true.

Not that there's anything wrong with chevron because if it didn't make me look 10 pounds heavier, I might give it a try, but alas those zigzag stripes make my ass look too big to fit through the door. I'll stick with my solid neutrals and yoga pants for now.

7. We're all here to be "blog famous".
I like this one the best. Mostly because I don't know who, in their right mind, thinks they're actually going to be "blog famous" as a lifestyle blogger. I mean, really, all we do is talk about ourselves. Whodafuk is going to get famous like that, for cereal?

And before someone jumps on me and says it... I know I joke about being a reality star a lot but I also insist that none of you take me seriously on the regular, so just remember that... and keep this creeper face I make when a camera points to me in mind.

Somebody get this girl a white van.

8, 9, and 10... We're not all "twenty-somethings just here on this journey called life", most of us do have 9-5 day jobs, and a good majority of us started doing this because we were bored one day. And maybe a little bit drunk.


What I'm trying to say here is that us lifestyle people aren't just a bunch of sock bun wearing perfectionists or a bunch of crazy circus characters out to put on the performance of a lifetime.
Try a lifestyle blogger on for size, we're not all clowns.

Or maybe we are.