Ruby Granger #46 Actively making time for boredom

[Rubs]

I find Ruby really fascinating tbh. I just can´t understand how she is doing so well in her uni studies, and yet presents herself on social media as such an amateur and incompetent, and I don´t know how to describe it. She managed to get top grades at uni, and even managed to get in to a uni that is considered one of the best in the western world. And yet she does and says so much stupid and superficial. I don´t understand it. As far as I understand the grade system in the UK is somewhat affected by grade inflation (where I'm from, Norway, (or at least my uni course: law) exams are graded much more in accordance with normal distribution/the bell curve, where C is by far the most common grade, and only around 10% gets a A. I get that it's not completely comparable as we have five pass grades while the UK have 4, if I've not misunderstood it).

I'm four years older than Ruby and have almost completed my law degree (in Norway it's five years), but have had to postpone it due to health issues. My overall grade will probably be a C, and even thought I am fully aware of the difference in the grade system and that I should know better, I keep comparing myself to Ruby, and I just can't understand how she's getting such good results. It's a bit pathetic but I feel kind of jealous, and at the same time I should stop comparing myself and be happy about my grades. After all, C is by far the most common grade for law students here. And I have managed to do that while getting a bipolar diagnose during my degree and spending months in the hospital.

I'm sorry, this post is definitely coming across as a complete mess, and I am not used to write that much in English so the language is probably not as good as it should be. But my actual point was that I find Ruby so fascinating as I jus't don't get how she can be the way she is. Like fascinating in a funny way, or I'm not sure how to explain my thoughts the best.

 

[pinkmug]

Watched her marbled paper reel and I am moments away from blocking her incompetent a on every platform just so she never even shows up on my recommendations lmao. Not only she definitely didn't bother actually watching any kind of tutorial, she also doesn't bother using special paper and just DUNKS a regular copy paper INTO the water. Of course the paper disintegrated. The ink isn't just poured into tap water, you need to make a solution so that the ink doesn't break apart on the surface like hers did. And you don't dunk the paper in the water like you're a medieval peasant and the paper is soiled clothing that needs washing in the river. You lay it on the surface evenly and remove gently so the ink doesn't warp as you're lifting. Her entire existence is rage bait.

 

[londongirl92]

Why has she been promising a common placing video for the last year in like every video. Like just film it or don’t keep telling people you will

 

[Griftwood]

Why has she been promising a common placing video for the last year in like every video. Like just film it or don’t keep telling people you will

Maybe she knows what an embarrassing mess it’s going to be 🫣

 

[gossip_guy]

Why has she been promising a common placing video for the last year in like every video. Like just film it or don’t keep telling people you will

She needs some time to copy the commonplace books of RALFWARDO AMMERSON and VARGINYA HWAHLF into her own notebooks. She'll flip through them on camera and claim she wrote them herself when she was TWALVE.

 

[CatCafe234]

Watched her marbled paper reel and I am moments away from blocking her incompetent a on every platform just so she never even shows up on my recommendations lmao. Not only she definitely didn't bother actually watching any kind of tutorial, she also doesn't bother using special paper and just DUNKS a regular copy paper INTO the water. Of course the paper disintegrated. The ink isn't just poured into tap water, you need to make a solution so that the ink doesn't break apart on the surface like hers did. And you don't dunk the paper in the water like you're a medieval peasant and the paper is soiled clothing that needs washing in the river. You lay it on the surface evenly and remove gently so the ink doesn't warp as you're lifting. Her entire existence is rage bait.

It took me far longer than it should to work out she was trying to marble the paper. I genuinely thought she was going for some kind of Brontë-esque Consumption core look and was waving a blood-stained handkerchief around.

 

[emmer_moans]

Why has she been promising a common placing video for the last year in like every video. Like just film it or don’t keep telling people you will

If she says commonplace one more time I may scream. Seems to be her word of the year.

 

[kuzo]

As a first time user of the ruby granger planner I have so many gripes with the thing

• The most annoying thing of all has to be that every page is aligned differently? The title banner is all over the place, to the left, to the right, a little lower, a little higher every time you flip the page. For example all of the September & January LH pages are skewed to the right (with a nice blank strip on the LH side) and considering it’s spiral bound this makes it a massive pain. Page 18 didn’t even try to stay on the page, it’s half way off the edge. How hard can it be to just centre your pages??
• The illustrations. The fact that they’re pixilated and haven’t been cropped correctly doesn’t even bother me that much. It’s that she doesn’t even understand the basics of sketching. Why draw in 3D if you don’t understand perspective? Dickens’ Great Expectations seems to be defying the rules of a cuboid in March’s illustration.
• I’m assuming other people would use the monthly notes page to create a habit tracker too, or at least that’s what felt like common sense to me. Well alas, for the dotted grid does not fit 30 days. Will continue to persevere with my 3 week habit tracker nonetheless.
• There’s a page for academic goals and then a page for ’Things I want to accomplish’ - i.e. personal goals, which you would think people would want to write ‘get a 5k pb’ etc. But the prompts on the page are: Places I want to see, Things I want to try & Things I want to do at some point in my life…
• The introductory letter written by Ruby at the beginning actually has the about me details and other things on the back, so you can’t even rip the page out. Mine has already met its fate with a layer of acrylic paint.
• Honestly the whole planner is whack, and I didn’t even start on the random quotes… missing my moleskin :’)

I do feel a little bad, it's only been through a week of use after all. The upside is it seems to hold fountain pen ink (LAMY) fine, I haven’t noticed any bleed through. Not all is lost (just my 22 quid).

 

[Corneilya]

She just knows that at this time of year people search for what's-in-my-bag videos and she wanted to hit that algorithm, plus, she still wants to cosplay as a child so of course she made the video.

Somehow I don't blame her for trying to use trends, but a full "cartable"? I didn't imagined her using that now.

 

[Brightlycolouredbowels]

As a first time user of the ruby granger planner I have so many gripes with the thing

• The most annoying thing of all has to be that every page is aligned differently? The title banner is all over the place, to the left, to the right, a little lower, a little higher every time you flip the page. For example all of the September & January LH pages are skewed to the right (with a nice blank strip on the LH side) and considering it’s spiral bound this makes it a massive pain. Page 18 didn’t even try to stay on the page, it’s half way off the edge. How hard can it be to just centre your pages??
• The illustrations. The fact that they’re pixilated and haven’t been cropped correctly doesn’t even bother me that much. It’s that she doesn’t even understand the basics of sketching. Why draw in 3D if you don’t understand perspective? Dickens’ Great Expectations seems to be defying the rules of a cuboid in March’s illustration.
• I’m assuming other people would use the monthly notes page to create a habit tracker too, or at least that’s what felt like common sense to me. Well alas, for the dotted grid does not fit 30 days. Will continue to persevere with my 3 week habit tracker nonetheless.
• There’s a page for academic goals and then a page for ’Things I want to accomplish’ - i.e. personal goals, which you would think people would want to write ‘get a 5k pb’ etc. But the prompts on the page are: Places I want to see, Things I want to try & Things I want to do at some point in my life…
• The introductory letter written by Ruby at the beginning actually has the about me details and other things on the back, so you can’t even rip the page out. Mine has already met its fate with a layer of acrylic paint.
• Honestly the whole planner is whack, and I didn’t even start on the random quotes… missing my moleskin :’)

I do feel a little bad, it's only been through a week of use after all. The upside is it seems to hold fountain pen ink (LAMY) fine, I haven’t noticed any bleed through. Not all is lost (just my 22 quid).

I believe I speak for everyone when I say, could you post some pictures?

 

[CoffeeMamma]

I've been keeping a commonplace book in varying forms since I was 6. It's completely batshit and makes absolutely no sense to anyone but me. Surely, that's the point!!

 

[soph30]

I think Ruby’s changed her tiktok name to Pumpkin Productivity? Obvs ramping up the business

 

[kuzo]

I believe I speak for everyone when I say, could you post some pictures?

Tbh it's all in her own video on the planner

Letter, Uncentered page example, Illustrations (still figuring out what June is supposed to be, chocolate milk in a teapot? very summer-eque indeed)

Note that the quotes are PRINTED, like they come with the planner joy

(I don't understand why she didn't pay a skint art student to sketch up some illustrations, instead of insisting on doing it herself)

 

[yeya]

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I’m sorry but did she write the ‘b’ upside down in the first ‘by’???? also love how she wrote ‘fmiles’ to match ‘friends’ and love how her ‘r’s are completely inconsistent (some cursive, some normal). And why is there no comma in the second sentence definitely not escaping the dyslexia allegations

ALSO as suspected a quick google search says this is not a John Lennon quote lol

How has she managed to mess up 10 times in two sentences?

 

[Griftwood]

I think Ruby’s changed her tiktok name to Pumpkin Productivity? Obvs ramping up the business

No, that’s a separate account, she’s had it for years.

 

[Hannahebee]

No, that’s a separate account, she’s had it for years.

She has definitely changed her tiktok name and included Pumpkin Productivity.

 

[thegossboss92]

Count your age by your friends, not your years? Now I get why she’s perpetually TWALVE.

 

[Binx]

Count your age by your friends, not your years? Now I get why she’s perpetually TWALVE.

with that logic she's be 2.

 

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

"The vengeance of the Greek gods is, as per, unbelievable" wow, what a deep, thought-provoking literary analysis! Definitely worthy of a first at
Oxford!

 

[gossip_guy]

Tbh it's all in her own video on the planner

Letter, Uncentered page example, Illustrations (still figuring out what June is supposed to be, chocolate milk in a teapot? very summer-eque indeed)
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(I don't understand why she didn't pay a skint art student to sketch up some illustrations, instead of insisting on doing it herself)

None of this is new for her, unfortunately.

She lies a lot about working all year round putting tonnes of work into these planners, but they just lazily reuse the exact same planner design doc every time. One of the few things that change from planner to planner is that she pre-fills a little more or it with her own inane bull and indecipherable handwriting to give paying customers a little less planner real estate to use.

Were you aware of the widespread issues with all her products already and decided to take a chance anyway out of curiosity? Or did you like the design and expected a great, well-made product that fit your needs? No judgement, I'm just always curious what the story is when people who have spent time in this thread still end up buying something from her.