I've gotten joy out of doing some little things around here lately.....
* We use to have large world maps on the laundry room door in our upstairs hallway. Since the kids are grown the maps were tossed but the foam sticky pads holding them onto the door are still affixed to said door.
I took my trusty bottle of Goo Gone and a Q-tip to those foam pads last week and now the door is again a thing of beauty.
* I won this wall art at the local church auction last Oct. and have been waiting for Hubs to actually hang it on the wall in the dining room. After 8 MONTHS I got tired of waiting so I hung it myself......
It only took 5 minutes.
* I made breakfast smoothies a couple of times lately.
I took some frozen peach slices, a cup of peach yogurt, a blueberry/carrot/kale fruit mix-in cup(gotten for free at Weis in May)and a couple of ice cubes.
That gave me 2 days worth of fruit smoothies.
Nice and tasty and cool start to a hot Summer day.......
* I purged a bunch of papers by putting my yearly household expense sheets onto my computer. 5 years of monthly reports. bleh. I then copied all that info onto a flash drive too and happily threw out a stack of paper! This wasn't such a little things since it took days to finish but I feel much lighter and more organized for it.
* While we keep getting rain nearly every day for months now, the sun has come out enough to help my pitiful little garden grow a bit.
I've got tomatoes, pole beans, collards and yellow squash planted in this patch.
The "regular" tomatoes are finally setting buds on the plants and I've even got 1 tiny mater in this blurry shot.....
* I did all the financial data for the last 6 months for my Etsy store. After fees, shipping and the cost of the fabric when I purchased it, I have netted $37.66 in income there. I sold 14 pieces of fabric this year through June.
I have also sold 2 more pieces just this week. I am not going to get rich but at least I am making a little something on stuff I can't use and it's going to a good home where it will be appreciated.
* We only ate out(or got take-out)3 times in June.....Subway x1, Chinese take-out x 1 and a day out at a local brewery for Father's Day. $79.71 spent in total on Eating Out Food.
* Our credit card bill just cut and it's $377.69 for July. MUUUUUCH better than the $3K+ bill in June from our May road trip to Louisiana. I'll have a nice big hunk of $$$ to put into savings at the end of July into my Savings Challenge unless something terribly expen$ive comes up before July is over.
* After my 1 Day Post-Op appointment at the eye doc College Boy drove me to the Dollar Tree so I could pick up some "cheater" glasses. I need these now to see paperwork, etc.
Me in my fashionably green frames.........
I just wish everyone could be as gorgeous as me. *snort*
* Being able to pay the monthly garbage bill for the full year at one time and not have it cramp my finances. Call me a nerd but it's one less thing to worry/bother/deal with later on this year.
* Having the humidity break from all this intermittent rain since May and being able to open the window and feel a breeze in the house. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
* I got my "sealed pot" of coins out to count and roll 'em up.......
$54 so far this year.
* I purged the stack of coupon inserts before June ended too.....
What little things you can appreciate that are going on in your world lately?
Sluggy
* We use to have large world maps on the laundry room door in our upstairs hallway. Since the kids are grown the maps were tossed but the foam sticky pads holding them onto the door are still affixed to said door.
I took my trusty bottle of Goo Gone and a Q-tip to those foam pads last week and now the door is again a thing of beauty.
* I won this wall art at the local church auction last Oct. and have been waiting for Hubs to actually hang it on the wall in the dining room. After 8 MONTHS I got tired of waiting so I hung it myself......
* I made breakfast smoothies a couple of times lately.
I took some frozen peach slices, a cup of peach yogurt, a blueberry/carrot/kale fruit mix-in cup(gotten for free at Weis in May)and a couple of ice cubes.
That gave me 2 days worth of fruit smoothies.
Nice and tasty and cool start to a hot Summer day.......
* I purged a bunch of papers by putting my yearly household expense sheets onto my computer. 5 years of monthly reports. bleh. I then copied all that info onto a flash drive too and happily threw out a stack of paper! This wasn't such a little things since it took days to finish but I feel much lighter and more organized for it.
* While we keep getting rain nearly every day for months now, the sun has come out enough to help my pitiful little garden grow a bit.
I've got tomatoes, pole beans, collards and yellow squash planted in this patch.
The "regular" tomatoes are finally setting buds on the plants and I've even got 1 tiny mater in this blurry shot.....
* I did all the financial data for the last 6 months for my Etsy store. After fees, shipping and the cost of the fabric when I purchased it, I have netted $37.66 in income there. I sold 14 pieces of fabric this year through June.
I have also sold 2 more pieces just this week. I am not going to get rich but at least I am making a little something on stuff I can't use and it's going to a good home where it will be appreciated.
* We only ate out(or got take-out)3 times in June.....Subway x1, Chinese take-out x 1 and a day out at a local brewery for Father's Day. $79.71 spent in total on Eating Out Food.
* Our credit card bill just cut and it's $377.69 for July. MUUUUUCH better than the $3K+ bill in June from our May road trip to Louisiana. I'll have a nice big hunk of $$$ to put into savings at the end of July into my Savings Challenge unless something terribly expen$ive comes up before July is over.
* After my 1 Day Post-Op appointment at the eye doc College Boy drove me to the Dollar Tree so I could pick up some "cheater" glasses. I need these now to see paperwork, etc.
Me in my fashionably green frames.........
I just wish everyone could be as gorgeous as me. *snort*
* Being able to pay the monthly garbage bill for the full year at one time and not have it cramp my finances. Call me a nerd but it's one less thing to worry/bother/deal with later on this year.
* Having the humidity break from all this intermittent rain since May and being able to open the window and feel a breeze in the house. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
* I got my "sealed pot" of coins out to count and roll 'em up.......
$54 so far this year.
* I purged the stack of coupon inserts before June ended too.....
What little things you can appreciate that are going on in your world lately?
Sluggy
