I won't recap this whole thing, since (as others have mentioned), it's one big, glorified and immensely stupid ad for the notebooks that she's struggling to sell, filled with nothing of value.
This isn't "what to do with the pages from old, partially-filled notebooks". This is "Strange and worrying ways to use a brand new notebook, presented by a high-level contender for the dumbest, most incompetent person on YouTube".
If you have notebooks that you don't use, the first tip should be: Don't buy more. If they're unused, maybe give them to a friend who will get more use out of them or donate them.
The second tip should be: If you want a planner and have spare notebooks, use them to make your own personalised planner. Don't buy a new planner, and
under no circumstances whatsoever buy one from Pumpkin Productivity.
But Ruby's an idiot, and a greedy one at that, so she avoids suggesting either thing as it'll eat into her failing business.
A few of my favourite/noteworthy moments of idiocy:
"Do work experience with an anti-bullying charity."
At this point, this goal is a lot like planning on applying to work for a bank a few months after you robbed it.
Ruby, you still owe substantial amounts of ad revenue to Unicef and Ditch the Label from your anti-bullying videos.
Every time you make a new, problematic video full of fabricated bullying stories and dangerously stupid advice, you do the anti-bullying cause more harm than good. They will not want you within 500 miles of them. And if you had an ounce of sense, you'd drop this entire "anti-bullying" charade and never speak of it again.
"Swim with sharks (sustainably)"
Ruby didn't seem to give a flying fuck about sharks until her sister bought her a shark-related gift and reminded her that she pretended to care about shark conservation once over a year ago.
She continues to use "sustainable/sustainably/sustainability" as a buzzword to show she's "KOIND AND CON-SHE-ANN-SHUSS" without understanding what the word means.
Ruby evidently plans to build her own boat from reclaimed driftwood and naturally fallen trees. She'll treat the wood with protective wood oil sealant (vegan-frAndly, OF COURSE). She will then row out to the nearest shark-infested waters VARRY slowly so as not to disrupt any marine life or underwater flora with the wake of the boat.
Once there, she will observe those majestic creatures in their natural habitat. To avoid disrupting their natural routines, Ruby will simply lean over the side of her hand-made boat, slowly dunk her head underwater and observe the sharks underwater through binoculars from a safe distance of 1,000 metres.
Ruby draws a gift idea plan for an unnamed penpal(?)
You can tell this person is SYO, SYO important to Ruby, since Ruby has to remind herself of what their inside jokes are. Does it count as an "inside" joke if at least one of the two people in the friendship doesn't even know what it is?
This possibly-pretend person isn't Ruby, since her birthday isn't in November. But this narrows things down to two, equally deranged problems:
Ruby insists on only socialising with people exactly like her (or her idealised version of herself), hence her recent 'Apply to be my penpal!' form which was essentially tailored to find twelve-year-old girls who share all of Ruby's opinions and tastes.
Or perhaps this person is nothing like Ruby, in which case Ruby still assumes they should be like her and will like all of the things Ruby likes, whether they want to or not. These gift ideas are not personalised for the recipient, they are an ode to Ruby's self-proclaimed greatness, delivered to another person. On their birthday, this poor chump will get a letter all about Ruby, a list of Ruby's favourite recipes, and a selection of re-gifted stamps that Ruby got for free.
Ruby also continues her incredibly impolite practice of just telling people how much she spent on them. If this person is real and watches Ruby's videos, they now know what they'll be getting, how much will be spent and will already be disappointed by the self-involved lack of thought that went into this.
"STANDING in an empty field."
Ironically, Ruby is incapable of just standing in an empty field and has to twirl, skip and frolic through it like a hyperactive child.
"Sunrise walks."
This is how much Ruby "enjoys" her sunrise walks:
"Late night chats with Blakeney."
The same Blakeney who seems like she has to force a smile whenever Ruby's around nowadays? Okay, Rubert.
"An essay when it suddenly 'clicks'."
I assume she means, "When you suddenly '
click' on Blakeney's Notion page/an email from your lecturer and it has great ideas to steal for your ASS-ay."
"Wild swimming."
Ruby won't even camp further than the backyard with her parents in attendance, she ain't going swimming in the wild. Presumably she means "wildly flailing your arms and legs in an uncoordinated seizure-like fashion while "swimming"", a lot like when she does "yoga".
"Dad's selflessness."
Ruby simply misspelt "settlements"; this refers to how happy Ruby will be if her dad is able to settle out-of-court on the day he's finally arrested for dodging his taxes.
Judging by these oddly specific phrases, Ruby's been watching her Tory idols on TV in parliamentary coverage.
She wants to study their terminology so that she can go full Rees-Mogg in lectures. She'll greet academic staff with a tip of the bonnet/top hat/boater and a "How do you do?" She will not greet other students in this fashion as they are beneath her.
Soon she'll be constantly interrupting the speaking lecturer with cries of "hear, hear!" to signify her agreement. She'll talk over the lecturer with a barely-intelligible jeering, chuntering rabble, peppered with shouts of "scurrilous!" if the lecturer suggests students don't waste time on unnecessary reading when they're falling worryingly behind on the required uni work.
Ruby accidentally reveals who her dissertation supervisor is (spoilers: it's not the lecturer that she's been sucking up to and stalking) and lets slip that her first meeting with them was yesterday.
I can only imagine that this was the tutor's reaction to Ruby's complete lack of ideas or progress and her baffling plan to go on an academic mystery tour across the UK to find lost manuscripts:
Ruby says, "Here's my mini "MAHRLSKIN" notebook which I ALWAYS keep in my pocket":
As she shows off a
Moleskine notebook, she says it's VARRY handy to keep a pocket notebook for taking quick notes. At which point she instantly returns to talking about her own branded notebooks again.
This is a video that's supposed to be showing people what to do with spare notebooks, right? Does saying "I loyke to have a toiynee note--[awkward edit]--BUHwhich I can jot things in" help people with their problem of having too many notebooks they don't use? Nope.
Did she think people wouldn't be able to figure out that a pocket notebook can be kept in a pocket?
Why not, say, offer ideas for making smaller notebooks from larger ones? Fold the spare pages from an old notebook in half, staple them through the spine, and voila! A pocket notebook.
Instead, Ruby derails an already dumb-as-fuck, pointless video just to say "I have a pocket notebook and recommend that you get one, tyoo!" Her indescribable stupidity and incompetence knows no bounds.
It's important that we keep a log of things we've learned, Ruby says, as it shows that we are growing as people.
Unfortunately, Ruby has yet to learn that taking money from charities, lying about it for months on end and still not returning the money is wrong.
She has yet to learn that the Holocaust is not something she should be trying to profit from every single year.
She has yet to learn that lying about quite literally everything to inflate her own ego or to make more money that she doesn't need doesn't make her better than anyone. Quite the opposite, in fact.
She has yet to learn that eating nothing all day is dangerously unhealthy and will not help her physically or mentally.
She has yet to learn that encouraging others not to eat, or making their day harder by knowingly throwing triggering content in their face makes you an intensely shitty person on every level.
She has yet to learn that glancing at every 40th page of a book does not mean you have read the whole book.
But Ruby has learned that spectacles were apparently uncommon in early modern England, so clearly she has the important personal growth areas covered.
Ruby apparently just didn't notice that there was a disgusting smear of peanut butter all over her finger for god knows how long. It speaks to the state of squalor and poor personal hygiene that she's become completely familiar with that she didn't notice this until a later date. (See also: Her fingernails, where it looks like she's painted her nail polish on
over a later of dirt and grime.)
Ruby reveals some(/all?) of her dissertation notes. It's no surprise at this point, but she has no fucking idea what she's doing.
"Addressing the Carroll controversy" is noted, but hilariously, it looks like she's tried to erase it. Fitting, since that's Ruby's usual method of dealing with controversy.