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Week One Decluttering: Done!

February 6, 2019 By Ligia

Last week I started this Decluttering Diet. The first 31 days is a “detox”. Each day has a 15 minute assignment. Of course, one can choose to do more than 15 minutes but 15 minutes is the minimum.

I am happy to say that I accomplished all the little 15 minute tasks! The jobs included:

paperwork- Done! I had several piles of papers all over my classroom/office and I worked diligently through those.
entry way/closet- Done! I had several coats and jackets that I no longer wear and so I put them in a sale pile.
purse- Done! Although,the messiest part of my purse is the receipts. I really don’t have a messy purse because I keep everything in little pouches. I have a make-up pouch and a catch all pouch.
Cleaning supplies-Done! This one was a bit tricky I have cleaning supplies in all the bathrooms so I didn’t get rid of any but I did condense a few. This is a work in progress. I am actually not buying anymore cleaning supplies and when I run out I want to start making my own again
Fridge and freezer- I only did the inside fridge/freezer. I plan to do the garage one this week. I found lots of treasures that were buried deep inside.
Pantry-Ah-my proudest accomplishment. I ended up throwing out 2 garbage bags of expired food. I am not PROUD of that. I hate that! But my pantry is clean. I am doing a NO Spend Challenge so this is exactly what I needed. Here is a pictures of it.

Left side of my clean pantry

Right side of my pantry

This upcoming week I have more 15 minute jobs including:

Cleaning out the medicine cabinet/first aid
Cleaning the dining area
Organizing and decluttering Entertainment Area
Culling all the Magazines and books
Revisiting my Junk Drawer

I am trying to carve 15 in the morning before I start homeschooling and so far so good.

Ligia

This is the Year to Declutter

January 26, 2019 By Ligia

I am excited to start the Home Decluttering Plan this next week using the amazing book by Jennifer Gifford from Clean and Scentsible.

She has it all set up on her website too, here is a link to that. In fact she has these amazing worksheets to go along with the plan. I am starting one month later. So my “January 2019 Tasks” is becoming my “February 2019 Tasks”.

The books starts off with a 31 Day Detox. Since February is short a few days, I am starting THIS Monday 28th. Will you join me?

The goal of the Detox is to GET STARTED! It give you a job everyday with a 15 minute work goal.

This weeks jobs:

M-Paperwork
T-Front Entry/Mudroom
W-Purse
Th-Cleaning Supplies
F-Fridge/Freezer
S-Pantry
Su-Free For All

I might swap Friday and Saturday because I am also starting a 31 NO Spend Month using Ruth Soukup’s book and the first 2 days she has you cleaning your pantry and fridge/freezer. Here is her book:

I am mildly scared because I am trying to do BOTH books at once. I think, though, that they overlap wonderfully and I need to do this for myself and my family.

Ligia

My 2019 Goals

January 11, 2019 By Ligia

I was talking to my son about goals verses resolutions. I think resolutions are too vague. Like “I will exercise more this year” or ” I won’t eat cake everyday”. Whereas goals, are broken down and measurably.

I have been writing goals for a while. Since 2015, I’ve keep a binder that has all my goals. Okay, that is not that long, but in 2015 I found Money Saving Mom and she had a really cool system for goal writing. I bought her older course on Say Goodbye to Survival Mode and worked through the steps. Here is a link to her newer course. Say Goodbye to Survival Mode.

Later, I found Ruth Sukup, from Living Well, Spending Less. She has a whole planner system and her Crushing It Central that I really love. She inspires her readers to Think Big. Here is a link to her website. Living Well, Spending Less.

I just finished her 6 Day Bootcamp to help me start working on my 2019 goals. I dont use her planner, but I do use some of her pages. I created my own goal sheet to set up my goals and I really like it. (below)

Really, my system is a mesh of both gals. I took Crystal’s method of breaking down the goals, but Ruth’s method of choosing just 3 Big Goals and a few other “wishlist” goals.

So here are my Big Goals for 2019:

Build our 3-6 month emergency fund. Last year, we had to use up our emergency fund, so this year my big goal is to build it back up. Everyone is different in how much they need to save. I wrote a barebones budget for a month and then multiplied it by 3 and then 6. I then averaged it out to get my savings goal.
Spend more quality time with my family. Okay, this one seems vague, but I have written specific “goals” on my goal sheet like Date Nights, Game Night, etc.
Grow my tutoring business. For 5 years I have been tutoring children with dyslexia in my home. This year, I want to learn to be a remote tutor. Along with that, I need to build a second website for that business. To draw traffic, I need to become certified through Barton Reading and Spelling. This is the program I use to tutor. So I have three goals within this goal: Build website, learn remote tutoring, and get certified.

There you have it my 3 Big Goals. I have several little goals that I am still working on accomplishing, but these are my three big goals.

Here are my little goals:

-Read the 24 books on my reading list

-Be a spiritual mentor for my niece

-Do the Decluttering Diet this year

-Start saving for our European Trip with my daughter in 2021 when she turns 21.