I got this idea from here. It’s like blog-scrapbooking. I’m way more likely to do this than the real thing.
I didn’t see this until Tuesday and now it’s Wednesda and I can see this isn’t going to be a real success. I am not a natural picture taker and the opportunities fly by and much later I realize it would be nice to have taken a picture. So, I’ll practice.
But wait, I can start with Monday night.
I finished two books last night (but the vacuuming didn’t get done). Both of these were on my list for Fall Into Reading. Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge was my first by her. I’ll need to read another to form a complete opinion. At Home in Mitford was wonderful, of course.
Here is the stack of other books waiting to be read this fall.
Today I put through 3 loads of laundry and had Connor put through one.
I also stood in his doorway to provide motivation for Connor to clean his room (mostly).
Then Connor did his 1st Review in Easy Grammar – prepositions.
What I didn’t get a picture of – we made tacos for dinner. This is a great step for us, we don’t do real meals together often.
Anthony and I went to a meeting about Self-Directed IRAs. Then I did my homework while Anthony went for a bike ride (yay!).
That was our Tuesday.
I found this idea, but not until the last few days of Sept. We have decided to do this for October.
Here is how it was described:
These are expensive times, and families are having to get creative in maximizing their resources. One blogger, Mary of Owlhaven, is a mom of ten kids committed to teaching her kids common-sense frugality by example. She’s hosting a carnival at her blog called 30 Days of Nothing, an idea originally launched a couple of years ago at another blog. The idea is, at once, simple and daunting: Mary and her family aim to cut out all unnecessary purchases, and focus only on the essentials, for 30 days. But Mary’s motivation isn’t purely a financial one.
Reasons for doing this include a disturbing sense of entitlement and taking control of our spending.
It will be difficult, as anyone who did in September can attest. Iron Man came out on DVD yesterday, but we don’t really need it so we’ll put that purchase off for now [as Anthony pointed out, I'm the one who wants the DVD].
We had already agreed to be accountable to each other and vet every single purchase before we made it. This takes that to another level where the answer will be “no” much more often. We’ve talked about “no doodad” periods before but we haven’t successfully controlled our discretionary spending in awhile. I think this will be good for us.
We’re off!
Free handbags. One every hour for 24 hours.
It’s worth taking a look!
