I was in Meijer the other day and ran across this bargin.
Mead folders for $.14 each.
I love a good bargin!
52 folders for under $8.00.
Wow!!!
The receipt shows the 2nd time I was at the store. I wanted you to see what I spent and saved.
I am quite proud of myself!
Church was happy to get the folders. Kids always need folders.
I am always happy to share my bargins with other people.
It makes my heart happy.
I started over a month ago and it is kicking my ass.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m learning a lot. It’s fun. I never realized how much could be done with excel.
It’s always been on my bucket list. A coworker told me she was going to sign up and then I did. My coworker has been very helpful and it’s been nice to work together.
The class pushes me out of my comfort zone and brings up alot of emotions. I worked with Excel years ago at work but nothing recently.
I have a lot of fear and self doubt. Fear I am going to fail. Fear I’m not smart enough.
I am going to keep moving forward.
I can do it!
The reason I love October 1st is because the money in my Christmas Club is put into my savings account.
$1,151.23 this year.
I have done this for the last 20 years and I love it.
I have $40 from every paycheck put into the account.
It really adds up and I love that there is a penalty fee for taking out money early. It stops me from taking money out before Oct. 1st.
I use this money for christmas presents or whatever I want.
I’m going to the bank today to withdraw some money. This weekend we will make a Christmas list and we can start buying presents.
My goal us to have 75% of my Christmas shopping by December 1st.
I’m going to try to have Christmas cards finished by this time too. Not sure how many I’m going to send out. Stamps will probably be $1.00 by then…..
Do any of you have a Christmas Club account? What is your money saved for?
Yes, another bin with 50 books in it.
238 books in total
WTF?…
I brang three groups of books by different authors to my local EBay store to see if he could sell them for me but he didn’t take them. Too many books selling with free shipping and he can’t compete. I think I will try to sell them on Marketplace.
I dropped off 27 today at the used bookstore. She’ll give me credit toward my next purchase.
Like I need anymore books…..
I’m still unsure of what I am going to do with the rest.
I’m going to donate some to the thrift store and maybe put some in the free book houses that people have in their yards.
I’m giving myself a limit of 74 that I can keep. The rule is I have to love them.
It’s overwhelming and embarrassing to admit I have all of these books. I would have never guessed I had that many.
I now allow myself to let go of some of my books.
Alot of my books.
Look at all of the room I will have in my office! Hopefully I won’t have any more piles if books laying around.
Well I’m going to let go some of them.
I’ve been thinking about getting rid of some of my books for about the month or so.
My intuition keeps nudging me to go theu my books. It’s hard not to listen.
I’ll be 60 in 7 months.
Do I really need all of them?
No.
One of my dreams was to have a big house with a big office with one wall lined with books.
Instead I have an office with a bookcase and books everywhere.
If I would die tomorrow would I want my husband or family to have to deal with my book mess?
No.
I thought I could deal with them all in one night.
After I dragged with books from the basement and our bedroom I realize I can’t.
Below are pictures of all of my books.
Now do you see why some of them have to go?
I’ve started to sort thru some of them.
I’m going to bring them to Inklings used bookstore to get credit toward future purchases and my local EBay store to make some money.
If I can…
I know money isn’t important right now. Letting go is.
I can’t belief I didn’t read so many of these…..
It’s kinda sad.
But they have to go.
My life is clogged in this area.
I will keep following my intuition and let you know where it leads me.
As you probably know they tore down most of the Tropicana.
Here are some pictures.
These were taken from my room this morning.
Kinda cool…..
All four sunflowers are open.
The fun thing is is that I can see them from my bedroom window.
They don’t look like I expected them to look. I thought they would look more like a traditional sunflower but they are beautiful and I love them!!
How fun!
This is my word for September.
What is your word?
Two of my sunflowers are open.
And two are almoat ready to open.
I’m so excited!!!!
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