I have never been one to enjoy cooking/baking. I would rather clean and organize! I guess it takes me more TIME to STUDY the recipe to make sure I get it right, and I prefer SIMPLE and FASTER meals! My husband found MakingFrugalFun.com and printed The Frugal Meal Planner for me, to motivate me. It…
GIFT LISTS
GIFTS FOR OTHERS This is a list I began keeping, to track everyone I buy for in a given year: birthdays, weddings, showers, graduations, holidays, Christmas, and now Easter. I just list it in order, from January – December, all who I need to buy for. Then I make a separate list for: Christmas –…
THE CALENDAR
After a bunch of different ways of keeping a calendar, I have decided on printing my own (to save money) and putting it on the fridge as a family calendar. It’s always there out in the open, reminding us to make sure everything is accounted for that needs to be. Each year I have been…
THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP
This is a book (and her additional second book) that is well worth reading, if you love organizing your home and space. First, I LOVE Kondo’s idea of saying hello to the home. I grew up believing in Animism without knowing it was an actual belief system! It’s basically the idea that all things real…
KITCHEN SUPPLIES
By the time I got to going through my kitchen stuff, I had read Marie Kondo’s book: “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” But I had already been organizing things in groups anyways! Which was awesome! Electrical Equipment – blender, food processor, hand mixer, etc. I kept these together in a bottom cabinet. Casserole Dishes…
OFFICE SUPPLIES
The next group of stuff I looked at was in my desk. My dad made our desks when we got our own rooms, so it being sentimental, I want to keep it for as long as possible. Office Tools – Looking through the drawers of supplies, there are some that I used in school I…
MUSIC
My first music player was a typical long black boombox. Played cassettes in it over, over, and over again! It is no more. Into middle school, my siblings and I received these smaller, cool-looking boomboxes! I have used this thing from 2001 till 2021! Around 20 years! It recently stopped working so I sadly had…
MOVIES
I collected a bunch of movies (VHSs and DVDs), mostly Disney movies and delightful others. Eventually I had to go through and keep what I wanted the most, because I just had way too much! I ended up dividing them into two categories: G/PG and PG13/mature. I put the G/PG on the shelf for my…
TRINKETS
Now these were fun to collect, but they did take up a lot of shelf space! I can only organize so much! So I gathered all that didn’t have sentimental value and got rid of them. They were nice to have and I would dust them whenever I cleaned my room. But too much around…
BOOKS
Books were a little hard. I read books only once, unless they really inspired me and I will keep them to read again. So it felt weird getting rid of good books I won’t read again, because of the cost of them being gifted to me. After decluttering books over the years to now, I…