Budget Reduction – Meal Planning

Budgeting has revealed several categories of unnecessary over-spending and a general lack of control. When you first start budgeting, similar to the Konmari system, you are instantly surprised to discover where your money is going. This is really just tracking your...
Zero-Waste Swaps – Toiletries

Zero-Waste Swaps – Toiletries

Due to my MCAS disorder, I’m looking at swapping products but I figured I could use this same opportunity to make zero-waste swaps as well. First, I’m looking at the things that I have the most contact with including soaps, foods, and cleaning supplies. ...
How to Make a Crash Budget

How to Make a Crash Budget

This is a bit of an odd post but I’ve been actively on the phone making tons of calls to research changes to nearly every reoccurring expense.  Therefore I thought you might appreciate reading about how to make a crash budget. I am no longer working a 40-hr week...

2022 Weekly Review – Week 5

Is anyone sick of these yet?  I hope not.  This is real life.  The ugly boring repetitive tasks that we do over and over … often poorly, in order to improve our lives.  This is it! As always, I’m going to review what I’ve been focusing on this week and...