Lately I have been doing a lot of decluttering at home. As I alluded to in Monday’s post, I have been noticing things. The more cluttered I am in mind, the worse the stress seems. If my house is really messy and very disorganized, I feel disorganized and sort of lost with what I need to do. If I go through a pile of papers and deal with them, I feel better. If I clean, tidy, and organize a shelf,…
Hello everyone again! This week is a new week. At least, that is what I keep telling myself. I am tired and I did not sleep so well last night. Sometimes I think sleep and I could be better friends, but we both have different agendas so what is the point? Saving money has been an unusual experience these last few weeks. I guess my tax refund was in my account on the 8th. I didn’t realize that fact until…
Before the weekend truly gets started for me, I wanted to get some posts written! This day is proving to be fairly busy already and it is only 8:00! I wanted to start something for the weekends and I couldn’t really decide what. I have a lot of interests and I read about a lot of different things. I always want to share that information with you and I couldn’t decide on the best way for a long time. I…
How many packages do you get? What do you do with all the packing materials that comes with those packages? I hope you don’t throw it away! I ship a lot of items from selling on Amazon and eBay. I am constantly looking for ways to reduce my costs without giving the appearance of being cheap on the packaging materials. One of those ways is to reuse the packaging materials that come with my online purchases. Unless the shipper has…
What a last week (or two? I have no idea anymore.) this has been! I logged more miles in five days than I have in a long time. Some of those miles were happy miles, sad miles, and contemplative miles. I would not trade them for anything, but this girl did not know what end was up for a few days after. I started out on the 1st of February driving to Dubuque for the state speech contest courtesy of…
This week’s frugal tip is an off-shoot of yesterday’s post about Corn Casserole. In the tips and suggestions, I have listed one about using up the ends of pasta that are in boxes. I don’t let these gems go to waste! This is still food and money spent. I have actually helped people clean out their food pantries and kitchens and they will throw these away. What?!?! Don’t do that! Let me help you! Invest in one of these: I…