A New Day

One of my favourite blogs is A Slob Comes Clean. I first found it shortly after getting married four years ago and I think it was a couple of years old then. I still check in every few months. I love a lot of things about it. I love the honesty and the humour. I love the practical advice and the motivation. But what I love most is that she isn’t afraid to acknowledge that she’s on a journey and share when she slips up and be honest about it. It wasn’t a simple quick fix but a lifestyle change that needs work.

I’m am telling you this as I’m feeling a bit ashamed that we’re in a worse financial situation then when I last gave you numbers. I’m not ready to give you our new credit card number debt but they’re a bit more than they were. But life happened. More importantly a beautiful little baby happened.

Our gorgeous daughter Zoe was born on the 2nd of July. Some money was spent on her, some was spent as we were too tired and overwhelmed to be careful with money.

Whatever the excuse, it happened and here we are. And we’re ready to take it seriously now.

We have short term goals and long term goals but more importantly we know that actions we need to put them into practice.

I’m going to aim to be much more deliberate with my blogging. I intend to post our monthly goals and budget at the start of the month and a review at the end, and then maybe a blog in between with things I’m learning or challenges we’re experiencing.

But the point of this blog is that even though we’re not in a great position we’re determined to get back on track.

Tackling the kitchen

 

This is what my cupboards look like now.

Stupidly, I didn’t take a before photo. However it was choca-block full and entirely unorganized. The only thing I kept that were in there was my slow cooker and that baking tray. Everything else you see had another place… on counters, on another shelf, on the floor.

I think I’m planning to have a garage sale for the rest. I have a waffle maker, an electric juicer, a little blender, a hand blender mixer,  a whole lot of there good quality clutter. If I have the garage sale I’ll upload photos.

I hate our kitchen and one reason was because it was so cluttered. It was easy to make the cull as I went in knowing that I never go into through the cupboards. Because of this, my husband feels inspired to paint it so I might stop hating it so much.

I’ve accepted two things-

1. This is going to be a super long process. Both from the point of view of getting rid of stuff and from changing my mindset

2. I’m probably never going to only have100-200 things. At moment  I have 15 scarves. I probably wear scarves 5 days out of the year.

 

I’m currently getting through our washing – we have about 6 loads to go- and then I’m going to do an inventory of what I have and then make big decisions for there.