HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!

7th Sep 2020 classyclassicsbykandis7 Comments

It is funny how it seems no matter how hard you try there is something to be done!There is someone that dropped a cracker, washed their hands, maybe came in from out side! I never knew how many corners there was until it came time for me to clean my own place.

I was never the worst at keeping calm in my house, however I was not the best either.. by far. I always wanted to have one the nice big pintrest worthy houses, and then I relized it will only look like that if we are not here lol. Well that won’t work!

There had to be a better way to get the house in order, and stay for even just a little. I have had many different cleaning habits through the 13 years I have been living with my husband.

The routines always were and still are changing, but just like trying to get those kids back into the habit of school, trying to get a new cleaning schedual and keeping it is just as hard lol.

When I had started with getting into finding better scheduals it was shortly after I had my 3rd kid. They were mom videos on youtube I had found, these would help me on days that I was:

over whelmed, feeling like not the best mamma, and when I could not seem to get my head in order, or figure out why I never seemed to be getting a head!

Ever feel like that?

Things just seem to blurr together, the dishes and just always there and I don’t want to think about the laundry lol.

Now, I know!

This is all parts of the pregnancy, and post partome is a vibe killer! There was just something about seeing it and finding it to realate to that was so interesting.

I have went through a couple different cleaning ways, some worked and some didn’t. I was am not one to spent my nice spring months deep cleaning, when I should be outside getting the yard and garden ready.

In saskatchewan our summers are short and I look forward to busting out of the house after a very long winter.

A couple years ago I sat down and tryed a cleaning system by “the flylady” its a zone cleaning design system!

Have you heard of the fly lady?

Have you heard of zone cleaning?

I hadn’t either, and it was a game changer for me!

Now, that I have had some BIG changes, I need to relook my zone cleaning.

The nice thing with this set up is it is all about you and your house! It can be switched, changed, added to or slowed down all depending on you!

Now I have croppeded this in a way that fits for me and my family. This is a system that is really a perfect guidline to help jump start my chaos! I found anyways.

There is so many people and places that follow the fly lady:

-Facebook

-Instargram

-Pintrest

– SO MUCH ON YOUTUBE

WHAT IS ZONE CLEANING?

This is really just a wonderful way to break your house up into… yap ZONES!

This allows you to hit all the spots in your house without trying to do it ALL in a day! This is a set up where you only really have to clean your “zone” for about 15 minutes a day!

The nice thing here also is it can be more or less time, you can take a hour on a day off to do it once a week, or however it fits in your schedual!

Every week you will work a zone, with the weeks in the month each week is a new zone!

What about half weeks?

Take the first and the last half week for the month and that is your week! You will have 5 zones for a month, to break up. Or however you feel to split up your cleaning!

In that week you can spend 10-15 minutes (or more or less) in your designated zone. These couple minutes are not for crazy cleaning, it is to see progress not perfection. This will allow you to chop at it over a week vs trying to do it in a day, or an hour.

Have you ever set a timer and see how much you can actually do in 10 minutes? It is more then you think you would.

I like to have a checklist of the daily and weekly chores to be done, then when my zone cleaning time comes I can look and go. You will not have the same time frame, or motivation for that matter everyday.

With having a list I can go off of I know I can reframe from getting lazy and just do the easy tasks everyday vs getting stuff off the list done. This is a way to keep up with deep cleaning to so you are not scrambling to get it done in the spring.

I don’t spring clean! I always thought it was silly as in Saskatchewan we spend 8 months inside I always do my “spring cleaning” in the winter months. January- March are my “spring cleaning” months here!

Do you spring clean?

Do you spring clean in the spring?

HOW TO SET UP YOUR ZONE CLEANING!

When you sit down with your paper, think about your house as if you were looking at in from the top down, or as if you were looking at the blue prints. The nice thing with this is it is to fit YOUR home, and YOUR cleaning!

Look at your house and what I always did anyways, and as I said I am needing to re doing my zones. This is a way I like to combine my rooms, so I am not bouncing around all over the house.

Example:

Zone 1- upstairs

Zone 2- living room & bathroom

Zone 3- bedroom

Zone 4- kitchen & bootroom

Zone 5- basement

Each week is a different zone, so each week you are hitting different areas of your home to declutter, organize and deep clean. I try to spend a little bit of time in the zone everyday, for 15 minutes.

This way I will not get as destracted when I get into a spot that is requiring maybe more tasks or different tasks! There is so many ways to fit the fly lady system into your schedual!

I am more excited to get back into the rhythm of having a good system that I know can work! There is so many different situations that no one persons schedual will fit everyone’s.

Take your time, think about your home, and your life when you try to get a schedual. Many times we will hope on line and search, get all excitied, write everything down, get all motivated then, a week later be right back where we started!

Don’t get discouraged!

Something that I learned with getting my own schedual sketched, and more so with my organizing coarses, is that like shoes and hobbies not everyone is the same! Your best friends schedual may not work for you but it might give you the motivation that you are looking for to get your running.

Habits take 21 days to form, so take your time, maybe make a list as you work. Figure out your schedual as you are doing it! I bet you have more habbits for a clean house then you think. When a habbit is formed you tend to do it without thinking about it. So chances are you have more of a cleaning routine of habbit then you think!

Make your goals!

Make your cleaning schedual!

Match up, move around, get creative see how much of the cleaning routine is already there and start slow.

Add ONE chore a day!

That is it ONE chore and at the end of 21 days I bet it will become habbit, and you will be on a roll!

I hope you liked the ZONE CLEANING BLOG!

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There is more cleaning routine blogs coming.

Can’t wait for a new one cleaning routinr (coming soon) check out some older cleaning blog posts!

Morning Routine with 4 Kids And Coffee!

After School Routine Trying To Do It!

Weekly prep

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GARDEN UPDATE! EAT YOUR GREENS!

31st Aug 202029th Aug 2020 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

I remember when I was little, mom was ALWAYS in the garden! We didn’t have a big graden growing up, it sure wasn’t real small either tho. However it was sure a yummy one!

Mom always had garden goodies in the freezer for winter, and my friend and I always got into trouble for eating all her peas. I remember always telling her that there was lots for her freezer. Then she would get me to shell them, but not eat them because I had my “share” and the rest was for in her freezer. HAHA

Well fast foward life by A LOT and here I am, telling my kids they have to leave the peas alone, so we have enough for the freezer to get us through the winter haha!

Do you grow a garden?

What are you growing this year?

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Let me tell you a little bit about myself and why I am doing a big garden! With being a stay at home mom, married for 12 years, we have 4 very active hungry children. I started a garden years ago, when the husband and I first start living together. I will also tell you know that my first couple gardens sure didn’t look like gardens.

How did mom make that garden look so nice?

This year was a very different year for everyone, this year would mark my lets say… 10th year of gardening. Like a garden that looks like a garden.

I had like all the other years prestarted all well most of my plants, however this year was harder as my toddler decided to EAT all my prestarted plants, while they were on the porch before the garden was ready.

So I went on a search to get more from local greenhouses and a couple city stores, I got most of my stuff in the garden.

Have you read the first garden blog, about starting the garden?

I’ll leave a link below to go have a read! Growing A Garden!

So, how are the plants doing during covid-19 in 2020?

This year the garden was much different, I don’t have a well worked and years of love garden spot.

I recently started a big adventure, and with how that adventure had been layed out, I know have a brand new garden to relove and revamp!

My garden this year I call it a “dump and go” garden! This is becuase that is actually really accurate for how the garden went in.

This year the area got cleaned, and rotatilled, with it being a new garden and a grassy new area, I had ideally wanted to go against what I normally would do and I sprayed it down, let it sit then watered it like crazy before I planted it.

However that is of coarse not the same course as 2020 had in mind. The garden just got worked, let sit for about a week, then BAM, I started planting. This is why the garden is refurred to my “dump and go” garden.

With the garden getting in what I found to be a little later this then I normally would but… really whats “NORMAL” this year. HAHA I wasn’t really sure on how well it would do.

I knew the weeds and quack grass would do great, lol, but I was hopping the veggies would do good to, as I try to fill my freezer as much as I can for the winter. I always say my kids would be a little hungrier in the winter without the garden goodies.

With the year now coming to the gardening end… I must say I am very happy with how my dump garden made out. I also had some people tell me NOTHING would grow this year, and I should not waste my time. HAHA is all I say to those garden downers.

Don’t be discuraged the nice thing about gardens, is no matter what you will have stuff do better then others every year.

Nothing grows perfect every year. As long as you have dirt, water, seeds and some love, something should come up.

So what did I plant?

How is everything doing?

I always had a fairly big garden, however as we have been upgrading our lives, of coarse mama’s garden would get a little bigger then my old one!

As the years go on with this garden, it will get a little bigger but also with time a little tammer also!

This year in between the crazy quack grass my veggies are growning. I will also state that as far as weeding goes, I made sure to keep it as well weeded and rotatilled as I could, to ensure that the seeds had enough love to start and survive. These last could weeks I have not been weeding, as is it time to be out there picking the goodies. Who wants to go and pick weeds and still pick the produce!

With the garden year coming to an end in the next month or so, what plants are doing good, will do good. The peas and beans are nice and high on their string, so the weeds will only chock them out so much now.

As far as some of my smaller plants that the weeds may still affect, like the peppers, lettuse, carrots etc, I just try to keep the rows as good as I can, not worring about between the rows at this point of the summer.

As far as the others like the brocolli, cauliflower etc, they are already heading to seed, which I am learning all about getting seeds from the plants, for my garden next year.

Go ahead and hit that like button, if you would like to see a blog on gathering garden seeds for the next year!

What did I plant?

This year as I said it is still a fairly large garden, but I defintly didn’t get as much as I would of liked in the garden this year.

With how fast the plants sold out, and with 2020, being well just that 2020, there was some other difficulties in play.

My garden in divided into 3 patches. I have one patch that has shorter rows that go east to west, one patch that is long rows, these run north to south. Then my last patch is just a patch, not rows this is where I have my squash, pumpkins, there was supposed to be melons, however long story short for the paragraph there is sunflower instead of melons haha… oh boy.

In there patch where I have short rows, some plants will do better in more shorter rows.

In these rows are my lettuse, spinich,green onions, cauliflower, brocolli, peppers, tomatoes, cabage, celery, brussel sprouts, carrots and radishes, and beets…. I think thats what’s in my short rows.

Now what didn’t do great for growing im trying to get seeds from the plants for next year!

This is something I am doing some homework on, I don’t know how to with all the plants, but I can learn!

Lettuce is doing awesome and I am having some go to seed, carrots I have never had good luck with, and I might be getting some this year!

I will also be trying to leave some to go to seed.

Radishes I got a lot of they did great, I’m also keeping a row in to get seeds for next year.

The peppers and tomatoes are doing well, tomatoes better then the peppers, however these you can eat and get the seeds!

Then the cabbage is ok they all did not make it to well, and this is a plant I need to see how to get the seeds.

The brocolli and cauliflower didn’t do the best, I did get some brocolli off, which the children took care of in a blink of an eye.

These are both getting ready to go to seed, which I am hoping to get for next year.

The long rows are my peas, beans and cucumbers, I always grow these in long alternating rows.

These I am seeing if any are to be left for seeds next year, cucumbers I think you can just take the seeds when eating.

Then the patch is doing ok, the squash is slow, but hopefully something will come about them.

As for as my sunflowers go, that were not supposed to be sunflowers lol, the seeds will be in the middle of the plant. There is also lots of seeds on each sunflower.

That is my garden up date, as I have been out there picking I am loving my garden hauls, I am focusing on peas and beans.

I am getting about a grocery bag a day. The peas get shelled and put into a ziplock bag and into the freezer for winter.

The beans are doing great also, I cut the tips and into a bag for the freezer.

As long as I have been doing a garden, there is still so much to learn.

Every year I will pick something to try to “baby” to learn more on how to grow it better, maybe try to learn more on seeds.

Every year is a new year, this garden year was just to try. To see how the spot may work, and to hope the garden would do good.

Now that I know the plants are going to be happy here, and next years garden should be fantastic.

Did you grow a garden this year?

Was it your first garden?

How did it grow?

Will you keep going on a garden?

They are a lot of work, but with a little research and some love and attention, you can have a fantastic garden, full of veggies, that will save you tons of money in the winter!

I hope you enjoyed this update garden blog, its crazy to think that fall is right around the corner.

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MY FAVORITE DIY PRODUCTS!

24th Aug 202022nd Aug 2020 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

I always heard, if you can make it DO IT. When I sat down and seen what I was spending on some products it seemed really silly. Why am I paying so much for something I don’t even know whats in it. To know that there is so much of a cost price just due to the time of year, where it was coming out of, and what was supposed to be awesome about it. It really made me sit down and think “how can I do this better.”

Hi and good morning and welcome to CLASSY CLASSICS BY KANIDS!

I will start by saying a little bit about myself! A few years ago I was trying to have a little more, I was budgeting and trying to have a clean house at the same time, while keeping kiddos content lol!

Times have not changed this alot, I love making my DIY products, I am a mother of 4 kids ages 11,9,3,and 1 1/2! I have been married for 12 years now!

When I sat down, I had quickly learned how much I was spending on cleaners. I knew they added up, but until I had sat down and looked close I hadn’t realized how much! I had then hoped onto trusty pintrest created a board and went to work.

Have you been following the other blogs? There is budgeting blogs that follow this one!

– FINDING YOUR BUDGET

FINDING YOUR BUDGET!

–BUDGETING ENVELOPE

BUDGETING ENVELOPE TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK!

–MONEY TIPS

5 MONEY SAVING TIPS

These are all little tips and tricks that I have learned while we were pulling ourselves out of debt. Go have a read, on how you can start a debt free life!

There is many ways of why you may want to start making your own products. There is so many things that one can make to either save money, or even just have a healthier enviroment! There is really no limit to what you can make yourself!

I am one to make more home products, I don’t do a lot of house decor (which I would love to start), I do more homemade cleaning and meal prep products.

Some of my favorite DIY’s that I have kept making and plan on to keep making are ones I found easy to make and will make a difference in your shopping trips!

I’ll let you know them and then we will talk about them with how you can make this in your home too!

Do you have some go to DIY products that you LOVE?

Leave it in the comment below!

First up is one I have in my life forever, its a staple in most grandmothers houses!

1) VINEGAR AND WATER…. AND ESSETIAL OILS

This mixture I have been using for SO LONG! This makes the perfect all purpose cleaner! You can spray this top to bottom of where ever you are cleaning, and simply wipe it down with a dry rag! This can be used on counters,cuboards, windows, fridge… I mean ANYWHERE!

All you need here is:

– a empty spray bottle

-white vinegar

-water

– essential oil for scent

Simply fill rougly 1/4 – 1/2 of the spray bottle with vinegar, fill with warm water and add as much the essential oils for scent. This cleaner will only run you pennies per bottle! Yes, you will get used to the smell of vinegar lol!

2) LAUNDRY DETERGENT

This one can save LOTS of money, as if you are like me it seems as tho there is ALWAYS laundry! It doesn’t seem to matter what laundry schedual I put myself on.. or try too there is always something that can be washed. Ecpecially with 4 kids.

To make this one you will need:

– 3-4 sunlight laundry bars grated

– 1 box borax

-1 containers oxi clean

-1 container arm n hammer laundry soap

– 1 large box baking soda

– 1 container unstoppable jar

Grate the sunlight bars into a large container, simply pour the other boxes together. Use roughly one scoop per load.

3) FABRIC SOFTENER

This one I have been using for just as long as the other ones! I was always so horrified on how much a jug of fabric softener was! So I just never used it. Then I found this and now I don’t like washing towels unless I have some made, because it is just wonderful.

This one is very easy to make, and only takes about 5 minutes to make!

– 2 cups conditioner (any kind)

– 3 cups of white vinegar

– 6 cups of warm water

Mix all together in on old fabric jug, shake it up and use a cap full as you would the store brand.

4) BABY WIPES

It is no secret that baby wipes are not only pricey and deffintly adds up, but they are not actually that good for babies tooshies. I have been making these since at least my third kid lol. These are so easy to make, and so unexpensive too.

– paper towel cut in half to make 2 rolls of squares

– 4 tablesoons of coconut oil

-2 tablespoons of baby shampoo

– roughly 2 cups of hot water per half roll of squared ( 1 full roll of paper towel cut in 2 = 4 cups water)

Mix the water and oil with shampoo, and wet the paper towel. Sqeeze water out, and if you want you can unravel it to make it an accoridian style for easier access when using. Store in a ziplock bag, or a air tight container!

5) MAKE UP REMOVER

Make up is always expensive, then you add face wash, moisturizer and what ever else. Then to add at least $10.00 on for something that will make taking all the stuff off easier. I have been making my own wipes for years. These work great…. as long as you aren’t lazy while making them I have noticed. This has close to the same recipie as the baby wipes just less water!

– Paper towel cut in half

– 1 cup of water roughly

– 1 tablespoon baby wash

With these I need to point out that you should take the time to seperate the squares and not leave it rolled up in the roll, like you can when making baby wipes. These is the squares are not unravelled then they ALL don’t work as well, the ones in the middle just don’t have much oil on them!

These are some of my go to DIY products, there is so much more that can be made, from homemade pie crust or tortilla shells, all the way to homemade hummingbird food, to getting you’re own seeds from the garden for next year.

Let me know in the comments down below, what is one of your favorite DIY’s to make?

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5 MONEY SAVING TIPS

16th Aug 2020 classyclassicsbykandis1 Comment

Good morning and welcome back to Classy Classics by Kandis!

This blog is going to be fun, I am going to tell you about my top 5 money saving tips! When it comes to money, there is so many ways that you can save!

It also dosen’t seem to matter what the season is, or what month it is in play, there is always something that comes up.

Always a way for that money to dissapear!

When I had started my budgeting jouney, I had some of these in place already, some of them I had started to make a habit of, when we were diving into saving money!

These are my TOP 5 tips that I find can be the easiest to do, and can see some of the best results. They are also amazing as once you start using them you will continue to put them into play!

If you have not read the other budgeting blog, I would love to catch you up quickly!

When I had found ourselves in WAY to much debt a couple kids ago lol, I set out on how I could make our family not be living paycheck to paycheck.

How we could still have fun, make family memories, and still be paying off our debt. I sat down and did some homework, got some motivation, some reasurance that we could do it, and you know what WE DID IT!

According to Jordan Page ” you must live like know one wants to, to live like no body can.”

This is so true, and it can sting a bit.

However where there is a sting there is a bee, which means there is a flower, which means there is sunshine, which means there is a silver lining….. ALWAYS!

THERE IS ALWAYS A SILVER LINING.

So what are some tips that I live by?

How are these little tips going to help? These 5 tips are ones that I grabbed in the beginning, I have kept them as a habit, for when money gets tight… as it does still time to time, they are easier to follow tighter!

These will help, whether its putting them all in place, putting some back in place, or just following them a little better, they will help you save some of your money. So if your interested then lets talk SAVING MONEY!

1) MAKE IT

2) REUSE IT

3) FREEZE IT

4) SAY NO

5) MONEY FREEZE

These are my 5 TOP GO TO MONEY SAVING TIPS!

Remember these are the easier ones to quickly live by, to get the ball rolling to get your money on track!

Lets go throught them and talk a bit about them, how each one works and why I think its a great way to save money!

1) MAKE IT–

This one is easy, but time consumming depending on how much you MAKE IT! The easiest way to put this in place is in the kitchen.

However this one goes so much farther as there is so many things to make!

THIS IS THE NEXT BLOG COMING OUT IS MY MUST HAVE DIY’S.

If you can make it vs purchasing it, it will be cheaper… not always but MOST of the time. This is items like:

-make supper don’t do take out

-make the filling, pie crust just all of it, make treats snacks!

-make laundry detergent and fabric sorftern

-make sandwiches or a picnic for the city days, take your own drink with you!

-Make the extras instead of buying them, learn to can produce, make your own relish, jams ect

-make decor and gifts

This step is a BIG ONE as it can be taken as far as the eye can see. It will depend on you and what you are wanting/ willing/able to do to save that money. I have made or tried to make A LOT OF STUFF!

What’s your favorite thing to make yourself to save money?

2) REUSE IT–

This one can be very useful. This is a great one to start in the kitchen also! How much do you think you throw out from your fridge in a week!

One of the biggest money costs expecially in Canada is our food cost! Now, if you aren’t scheduling a night for left overs that can add up, there is many ways to reuse leftovers.

Have tons of potatoes!

Make a whole bunch of baked potatoes, there is baked potatoes, hashbrowns, twice baked potatoes, mash potaotes and then if you still dont know what to do with them… FREEZE THEM.

To reuse something is not only for in the kitchen when trying to save money!

Is there something you are ordering or going out to look for?

Hop on pintrest first is there a way to DIY it, is there a different item in your house you can reuse before making a purchase?

It does not have to be permamnent but temporary until you have the money to get what you were looking at! Instead of containers under my sink I had used before velcro strips and kids cups as extra storage!

TRY TO THINK OUT SIDE THE BOX AND REUSE WHAT YOU CAN!

3) FREEZE IT–

How much items do you put in your freezer! Almost everything that we buy can in one way or another can be froze. When I say to freeze it to save money, this is a great way to bulk shop some pricey items when they come on sale.

Make extra meals and label them pop them into the freezer and bam there is a meal when you dont have what you need to make something. To save time and money try to freeze extra foods, veggies in the freezer are great for stews or stirfrys, precook up meat and freeze it for easy access for another night.

If you have bulk chicken breast, cook them all up, toss them into your stand mixer with the dough hook it will shred it for you! Then simply cool completly and toss into a freezer bag and you have pre-made, pre-shredded chicken for any meal.

It does not have to be a meal that gets froze, but they are the fastest way to have something on hand, but at times having the ingredients froze can be just as handy.

4) Say NO–

This one is a easy and a hard one. However it can be a powerful one and it can work on many levels. With saying no this can be used big or small. Try small if you have some problems saying no to some purchases.

So try saying no to one thing a day.

Maybe you buy a coffee, each day so….. try to take your own, then with the change that you said no to spending put that in an envelope or TRACK it and at the end of the week see what you saved that week with saying no.

Another way that you can use the say no is for big expences, I will say now that it is not usually the BIG PURCHASES that will make someone stay in debt, its the little day to day ones.

Anyways back to reality with using it with bigger purchases try to wait to see if you REALLY needed it or was it a “fun buy.” If you still need it, the next time or when it goes on a better sale, as most things will filter through sales about every 3 months or seasonally… depending on were you live lol.

5) MONEY FREEZE–

This one I saved for the last, as most people don’t like to talk to me as much after this one HAHA. But, yes just as it sounds you are going to do a money freeze.

Now im not saying to go and pull out all your money to freeze your account, that is pointless and DON’T TO IT.

I want you to acually just don’t spend money! If you have a twitch then think serious lol put that card out of sight.

When starting with a money freeze don’t start long, this will not work. The magical thing about this is it is YOUR card can it can be done for any amout of time.

This can be done for a afternoon, 24 hours, how about 3 days, all the way up to 2 weeks. It is possible when you know how to do it to work for you!

Don’t know if you can?

YOU CAN!

Put that card/s in the fridge, put them right into the freezer, put them under your matress. Going to try for a longer period and don’t know how! Try doing a pantry and/or freezer inventory, make a meal plan, you will feel more confidnet in your money freezing time frame.

My favorite is a 3 day or 72 hour freeze. I feel 3 days is a great time frame to save MORE THEN YOU THINK you would, use up a bit of stuff that has got shoved in the back.

Remember these money tips, are just ways that I find really helped time to time, when I find our expenses are just getting a little out of hand. They are not forever…. but, with these they are all easy to keep doing, whether you are in debt or not.

Saving money is a day to day thing these days, but if you get into the habit now, these 5 things can help in what ever the money situation is.

Saving money can be hard, if it was easy then everyone would!

What do you struggle with the most when it comes to money!

Mine was the little stuff here and there. The walmart stops with no list… that kills our wallet.

There will always be something that we want, but when times are tough you have to be tough.

Ask yourself before you buy it:

– DO I NEED IT

– IS THERE A PURPOSE FOR IT

– IS THERE ROOM FOR IT

– CAN THE PURCHASE WAIT

These little steps, just as the money saving tips are just little ones that can make a big difference.

I hope you enjoyed this blog on MONEY SAVING TIPS!

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BUDGETING ENVELOPE TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK!

3rd Aug 20201st Aug 2020 classyclassicsbykandis1 Comment

It doesn’t seem to matter, where I go or how I get there money is involved. 💵

When you are trying to save money whether its just a little bit or to budgeting extreme, it seems like there is more that one wants to buy when you know you can’t, or like me and everything in my house seems to break down at once!

Hi and WELCOME to Classy Classics By Kandis! ☕

If you are new to the blog go ahead and follow, sign up with your email to get notifacations on new blog posts! 📰

I hope you will enjoy this blog about budgeting with some idea’s and tips that I find can really helps.😁

I started budgeting many moons ago, my hubby and myself had found ourselfves in way over our head in debt, when I had decided to change the ways we spent our money trying to get us out of debt these little tips and tricks of tracking and following were what had helped! 🐾

When it comes to money, tecnology is not everyones friend. I am a straight up work better with pen and paper kind of girl! I just recently started being able to do e-transfers and check my account on line lol. 👩‍💻

When it comes to spending money, do you track it?

Do you know in advance what you will be spending and where?

When it comes to budgeting big or little you must know WHERE YOUR MONEY IS GOING!

Did you read the budgeting blog? ⏪

Start there and come back to this… So you are looking to save money!

Have your budget all set out for the month? 📆

I say a month in the beginning as most (expecially with 2020) are getting paid once a month. This is how I get paid, and most payment and bi-weely or monthly! 📅

RIGHT!

Ok still with me? 🤣

Great! 👍

Lets start the actual blog then before I loss you haha.

For the budgeting envelope that is all you need an old envelpe and a marker! 🖍

GOT THEM?

What you are going to do is with your envelope make a line down the middle, and then make 3 across to that you have 4 sqaures down on each side of the line!

MARK YOUR MONTH ON TOP! ✏

Each sqaure is a week, so go ahead and mark the weeks in the corner of each box. This is how you will break down your month for spending as week to week is less intimidaing then a whole month.

With the other blog, it showed you how to find your budget for the month! With your set budget for “spending” you will use this with the envelope! 📩

You can use cash or still use your debit either was KEEP YOUR RECIEPTS!📬

On the first row that is representing the first week, put your gorcery/house budget here, then on the other side of the line put your budget for “other” here.

Now as the week happens as you are using your budget as you put your reciept into the envelope, go ahead and subtract your cost of what you spent on the amount you have on your budget.📈

With this you can take money from your “other” square to your “grocery” and other way but DO NOT TAKE FROM THE FOLLOWING WEEKS! You are trying to save money not borrow week to week! 💰

Lets do a little example:

Let’s say you did your budget ok and it’s:

💲400 grocery 💲200 other 💲600 bills

JUST SAY

So breaking it down there is $100 per week for groceries and $50 for other per week!

There was a sale so you took $125 for the first week, so now you would have $25 for others for the rest of the week.

But, maybe with that sale you know will only spend $50 for groceries the next week. Now there would be $100 for others on the next week if you roll over the weelly budget. OR You can take any money you did not spend that week if you can and put it in for EXTRA debt payments! ⛵

The point is NEVER “borrow” from the following weeks, it will keep you in the snow ball effect, this is not how to get ahead! ☃️

If you are being diligent and keep your reciepts in the envelope when you spend the money, at the end of the week, or the month… however works better for you, this is how you can track ALL YOUR MONEY!💰

This will allow you to see where you over spend. If you go and get a treat everyday even att only $4.00, do that for a whole week and you spent $30.00 on that ONE TREAT! 🍦

STAY TUNED NEXT BLOG IS ABOUT MONEY SAVING TIPS! 🙄

Now that we have talked about the envelope it’s time to put it into action! 🎬

Take it with you, EVERYWHERE!

Put it in your car, purse, put your cash or card in it and take it with you! This is a easy way to track all your money!

When you purchace something determine what side it would belong to, and when your reciept goes in subract the amount and DON’T OVER SPEND! 🚫

No one wants to put things back at the till, or throw it out when you didn’t use it. ♻️

I hope you enjoyed this budgeting blog, give it a like so I know to make more blogs like this one. 👍

THERE IS MORE BUDGETING FUN COMING!

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Let’s get that wallet and budgeting dreams going.

2020 has been hard, but with some hard work it can still be a good year!

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FINDING YOUR BUDGET!

27th Jul 2020 classyclassicsbykandis1 Comment

Hi and good morning?🌅

Birds are singing, sun is shining and we are talking MONEY!💲

Have you checked your account today? Do you keep your receipts? Do you track your money to see where it is going?

I ask so many questions because money seems to be a fast moving thing (2020 or not). It seems I am spending money everywhere that I go these days. ⏸

Let me start with a little bit about myself and how I think I can help you get out of debt! Years ago my hubby and myself were in debt! Lots of debt, living paycheck to paycheck, with two kids at the time and we were just getting deeper and deeper into debt! That was that I had enough and I didn’t want to be in so much debt, not making it foward in any acounts!

GUESS WHAT!

We changed it, we had to change the way we lived, I got my big girl gichies on and set a budget! 👩‍💻

Oil patch had crashed, I am a stay at home mom, life got tight, the budget got tight! ⛈

But……..

GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!

YAP!

We did it, roughly 4 years down the line we were out of a TON of debt.

NOW!

Why am I saying this why am I back doing this?

Fast foward life a little and here we are now with 4 kids, new dreams, new goals and new DEBT. 🌠

Not debt like before goals and dreams building debt. It is one of the easiest habbits to fall out of, I think.

So back to it I go!

NOW LETS TALK BUDGETING!

1) TAKE YOUR MOST RECENT BANK STATEMENTS! 💳

2)GET HIGHLIGHTERS 🖋

3)HIGHLIHT YOUR INCOME, AND THE AUTOMATIC PAYMENTS (MORGAGE, INSURANCE ECT) 📅

Using hightlighters will allow it to be fast and easy when seeing what is coming in and out for what reason. Simply make a color code on the top of the bank statement, or in your budgeting book or paper! (Having this on hand when doing the outline will help.) 📆

EASY!

Now this is where you figure out your starting budget…. Take your income and subract your no wiggle room payments.

Where are you starting in the green or red. 💲

When you have the “fixed payments” written down,now you need to go though your monthly bills. 📚

These are a little more flexable month to month.

I say this as you can put more or less on each month…. I am working on credits on ALMSOT all my house bills. (I do this for seasons that are tighter… HOLIDAY months) The house bills that I refure to is bills like the gas, power,water etc. ☃️

NOW WHERE ARE YOU!

If the money is still not easily accounted for this is where reciepts come in! For a minimum of one week keep your receipts, this will allow you to filter threw them and track a little more of the money. 🔎

This will let you see how much money is going into “other catagories.” 📑

FOR EXAMPLE:

-GROCERY

-FAST FOOD

-PITT STOPS

-ALCOHOL

-SMOKES

-GAS (feul)

-“PLAY” MONEY (CAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DO HAHA)

So…..

Now take your trusty highlighter and color code your catagories agian… 🖊

but in brokedown ones….

like the examples above.

Where there is money going have it tracked into a sort of catagoy for you to filter through and cut down…. we will get to this step shortly!

This is a more consuming part but it will have the most impact I promise. 🗂

Now that you have all of your money sorted, NOW WHERE ARE YOU?

GREEN OR RED! 💲

You may need to make cuts, you might need to live a bit moe frugal for a while! However it will be WORTH IT in the end, your MONEY will be WORTH it! ✂️

Now that you have your outline done, money coming in and out it’s time!

If you are in the RED you need to know how much extra you need to make, or how much you will need to cut back to make everything balance out!

How fast do you realistically want to be out of debt or be caught up on bills, or BOTH!

How much money goes into each space? 📧

How much do you want to cut out? ✂️

How much do you NEED to cut out? 💵

The kicker is know one wants to cut back, know one wants to not be able to spend money!

REALITY!

The more you work at it the quicker it will be paid off! I am not saying you will fly out of debt, I am not saying it won’t take time and hard work! I am saying that it is possible.

You will have to make cuts, to make it easier to put money in for bills and debt. Look where you can stretch your money! 📈

So, where can it be cut:

-grocery bill

-play money

-take out

ETC

It will get harder before it easier, it will be hard but its not forever!

If it was easy everyone would be saving money no problem!

What do you stuggle most about saving money? Comment below I guarentee you are not alone!

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SUMMER DRINKS!

4th Jul 2020 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

Hello, good morning and happy summer!

Can you believe it’s finally summer, actually the season too! Since summer wasn’t actually till June 20th it was happily accepted here in Saskatchewan!

It was a pretty wonky start to June! With the wheather finally starting to get nice out, it’s time to get some summer drinks happening.

Summer is short in my neck of the woods, so when it’s time to open the windows and doors we are getting pretty ancy to get outside here!

Let me start with a little but about myself for those who don’t know me! I am a stay at home mom with 4 kids ages from 11 down to almost 18 months. Married and just trying to keep people happy and some food on the table lol.

When I say we are busting to get out, it’s not a stretch! In Saskatchewan we have what seems like 8 months or more of winter! That’s a long time to be cooped up in the house, so when the snow melts and the birds start singing it’s not crazy for me to say we are out side ALL day!

As my routines change for summer months ( routine blog coming), we are out side from morning to night!

Breaking up the day with still chores whether it’s inside or out, break time is always appreciated!

When its hot and muggy out a cold drink can be even more appreciated!I thought it would be a fun way to kick off summer holidays with some of my favorite drinks!

Mamma drinks that is! When I’m not sipping my coffee, as I always will have coffee, some days you need or want just a little something else.

EXPECIALLY ON A LITTLE HARDER DAY WITH THE KIDDOS! lol

These can be handy as you can make a pitcher and have it ready or just make a cup as fast as a pitcher.

Depending on your day, depends on what you need…Yes?

I am not into sweet drinks and so I have tweaked the drinks to fit me and what I like!

What’s your go to summer DRINKS?

Beer drinker?

Coolers?

Wine?

Cocktails?

Are you like me and it all depends on your mood, the wheather, and the chores of the day?

Let me know in comments what do you drink in the heat of the summer!

Also let me know if you liked the blog so I know to do more like this one!

MOJITOS

Classic summer drink, let me know how you make yours!

– white rum

– lemons

– mojito leaves

– mint (any mint) leaves

– water

Score the leaves, cut and squeeze lemon put the lemon peel and leaves into the water after tho. Extra flavor and looks cute.

Fill with water ENJOY!

White Russian

– RYE OR vodka

– kahùla

– milk

– cold coffee ( to have a type of ice coffee)

COCONUT RUM AND ANY MIX

I don’t drink pop or much juice so work with me here lol

– Malibu Coconut Rum

– water

– juice for color

Don’t want to make anything?

What’s your go to cooler, or beer?

Got a good drink recipe?

Share down below, it’s summer holidays let’s let the sun go down as we have our good job drink!

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Have You Heard Of Monat!

17th Jun 2020 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

With everything so crazy, trying to remember what is on my list when I go into the city to get groceries. Not to mention that only one person can going with one cart! Fine and dandy except before this all started I used to need two carts, that was just on the city grocery stock up. Now I need to think about what is going into the cart as I need to get everything in ONE cart.

If I can get it some where easier then why not leave the cart room for say all the jugs of milk we go through! Hi there am Kandis!

Welcome to CLASSY CLASSIC’S BY KANDIS. I am a mom of 4 children ages 11,9,3,and 1😥 lol. I have been married for over 11 years.

Not long ago I went in on a new goal, a new drive. I never was one to care or take care for that matter of my hair! My hair stays up in a pony tail or a mamma bun, I mean for DAYS, I don’t brush it much… like actually I’m the worst for hair care. I needed something a little better, I needed so edging that would care for me hair and skin for that matter when I’m neglecting it taking care of so many other. I then signed up for MONAT!

Not really knowing much, not really thinking it would change my life, everything deserves a chance right?

Then it happened, I learned I like it lol, I learned that it does help my hair, I learned that my hair likes the love lol. I decided to try to spread what I know no, on a product that is healthy for not only my hair, the environment, animals and actually my wallet.

Now I say it like this as when I first seen Monat, I felt it was over priced and money sucking!

Then I learned!

The bottles that my hubby and myself have been using lasted both of us… Ok 1 bottle of shampoo and 1 bottle of conditioner lasted us 3 MONTHS!

I only need a quarter size for my hair, my hubby uses roughly nickel size!

To point out short version style, I broke down the cost and a bottle is running us less then $6.50 a month or $13.00 for both a month!

THAT IS ACTUALLY CHRAPER THEN STORE BRANDS!

So if you want some cool, info I have outline what I found to be the base of what I wanted to know and what I felt people should know about product! It may not be for everyone, however there is so much variety that there is actually something for everyone! This is where your Monat person ( like me) comes in to match and help if you get lost to help you find the perfect match. All in the comfort of your home!

ARE YOU READY?

HERE WE GO!

Here are some facts that I find oh so important about these products!

#1:MISSION

Their mission is to help everyone enjoy naturally based products from root to tip! #2:PROMISE

They promise their products are

▪︎safe

▪︎vegan

▪︎cruelty free

▪︎backed by science

There is more to their promise!They say no to addingparabens,cyclic silicones, phthalate, sls/sles, plastic microbeads, harmful colors, harmful fragrances and no animal testing!!!

All in the promise you will love these products no matter what your hair type is!

#3 THE DIFFERENCE

There is already over 1 million vip customers, it’s a family owned company, giving back to communities, anti-aging products, dermatologist and ophthalmologist approved, safe naturally based products, products are backed by science, they ship over a million units of products a month all over the world, the BIGGEST difference Monat has is THEIR 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

#4:THE PRODUCTS!

How is their products better?

KEY INGREDIENTS:

Hair:

Rejuvenique oil intensive- has 13+ natural plant and essential oils capixyl- protects and strengthens growthprocatiline- helps protect hair against stress by adding antioxidants crodasorb- helps protect color hair from fading

skin:

rejuvenique s- comprised of 17 botanical oils natural fruit acids- makes skin GLOWexclusive peptide- helps with skin elasticity moss cell plant base stem cells- helps repair and regenerate

Pet:

rejuvenique- botanical oils sulfate free cleanser- gentle on them but cleans dirt and grime offodour scavenger- helps block odours

THE INGREDIENTS ARE PART OF THE MONAT PROMISE AND ALL ON A 30 DAY MONEY BACK

#5 WAYS TO SAVE THAT MONEY

There is 3 ways to join, buy, and purchase with always at least up to 25% saving! I will go through each thought out the day but…the simple view is

1: retail customers… can save up to 25% plus more when you unlick more savings!

2: vip customer… 15% off instant with the up to additional 25% off plus more details to come!

3: market partner opportunity…30% discount with up to the additional 25% off with much more details also to come!

LOOK IT OVER , TAKE A THOUGHT, FIND A MARKET PARTNER WE ARE EVERYWHERE OR WRITE ME FOR MORE DETAILS (MONAT HAS GROWN EXCESSIVELY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS) HOW TO BE APART OF MONAT!

With 3 ways to enjoy monat, why not look!

WHO doesn’t love options in their life! With so many different varieties of products there is varieties to save!

Have you ever thought about trying something new?

Want something that will help? Not just look nice but actually help?

I bet there is a monat partner in your area, on Facebook, or Instagram we hid everywhere! Can’t find one, the nice thing is you can go through others like me! With a simple comment we can be finding you the best match for your hair and skin needs.

http://www.mymonat.com/beyondhair

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Growing A Garden!

20th May 2020 classyclassicsbykandis2 Comments

***Love making flower arrangments in pots for around the steps and deck!***

Hello and good morning!

The birds have been singing, the sun is getting warmer, most importantly the snow is gone, for the most part! This is a wonderful thing, I live in Saskatchewan, Canada and winters last FOREVER here! This all means it’s time to gtebplanning and preparing the garden!

This year will prove to be more as I am starting a new garden! A new area, new spot, means new work! I also didn’t have the same set up and my 2 youngest sure didn’t help the plants tarting! There is still time and needing to purpases this year more then normal may be a good thing in a couple ways! This will not be my last garden but it will be my first for the new one!

I have been gardening for over 10 years now, and I tell ya it’s not quite like just putting a seed into the ground, then coming around and eating and harvesting. Well for most garden plants that is not the case! That is the short vission, I have learned there is deffently more to it.

When I get ready to start some plants I start in February and March! It takes months of prepping for some, but all worth in the end… I think anyways!

Let me start with me! Hi and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis I’m Kandis! I am a mom of 4 kid’s age from 11 to 1 year old. I have been married for almost 14 years, I have been a stay at home mom since our daughter came into our world in 2009. I had tempted my first garden in 2008 and it was a massive flop. Like I don’t even count that year as having a garden lol.

Do you garden?

What do you grow?

Do you prestart your seeds, or use nurseries?

Where to start?

What to start first?

How to get them started?

Let’s get some answers to some questions, let’s save time and so much money!

Where to start!

The first thing you actually need to figure out is where and/or what kind of garden you are going to have?

Is it going to be a in ground Garden? Is it done, by this is it worked up, does it have good sun coverage one it?

Is a raised garden what you into? Have spots picked out? How many beds are you doing? How are they being built and/or delivered?

NEXT

What are you planting? Make a list and figure out what you are wanting to grow! This step is when you need to also figure out if you are starting all your own seeds or are you buying for a green house or maybe both!

Start the ones you need! When it comes to growing, not everything takes the same time. Depending on where you live also depends on how much extra growing time you need. Saskatchewan gardening will be much different then if you live in B.C lol. Some plants will take almost months longer then some others. When I start cantaloupe it is so much earlier then say lettuce that is seeded right into the ground! So get your list and seeds of what you are going to pre start.

STARTING YOUR SEEDS

There is all sorts of ways to start seeds! There is so many products out there but they do add up fast. Thought out the winter I will save my plastic fruit containers, some egg cartons and some milk jugs and cartons. These are all things I reuse when starting my garden seasons.

HOW TO PRE START YOUR SEEDS

Seeds are little and finicky, as I feel I need to do better, as my plants come and go as I try to start them! When it comes to space for light, with an area that little a ones can’t get at, it can be hard to do as a tell lol. So back to starting seeds! I like to start mine in cut divided egg cartons. Simply cut out each egg square, place them in the container you are choosing. Like I said I like using plastic fruit containers they make mini green houses! What ever you are using simply add dirt wet slightly, put seed on top and lightly cover with dirt! Water again and place them in a sunny warm spot! Over the next couple weeks, keep them watered and warm and watch them grow!

TRANSPLANTING

When you start your seedlings in a mini green house, or any starter, you will need to transplant them into a bigger pot till time to go into the ground. This step is why I like to use cut egg cartons, as the little roots and streams are very weak, using the method keeps them protected. Simply take the whole plant and egg carton out, with dirt in the bottom of your bigger pot place the carton and plant and place it in the pot. Add dirt to cover most of the stem. Then conitue on watering and keeping warm. You may need to transplant one more time if the pot is not of size to support the plant depending on your gardening time. Here in Saskatchewan we are now more accustomed to not having out gardens in till the first week of June!

PLANTING IN THR GROUND

When the frost is gone, and your ground is worked up and ready it’s time to plant and transplant into the ground. I like to have my rows marked and drenched. This just makes placing easier and quicker.

When plants need to be transplanted into the ground, simply make a hole, about the size of the pot, making it a little, deeper to make sure the stem can be covered. Not all the stem, however most plants the stem as it grows becomes the root base!

When it comes to sowing directly into the ground. Simply trench your row, spread your seeds into the row and cover! Lightly water the garden after, you do you meant to drench it as the seeds can actually get moved or washed out. In some cases the seeds may get to wet and crush.

OVER LOOK

Gardening can be such a fun time, with some hard work and love it can be an addicting hobby. Let’s quickly overlook the steps

1: get your garden space picked and prepared. Whether you are doing in ground or raised beds, get them ready.

2: make a list of paints you would like to grow

3: get your seeds and material if you are prestarting

4: start any seeds that require extra grow time

5: transplant, purchase, your almost ready to plant plants

6: make and trench your rows

7: plant your garden

8: keep weeds down, water regularly, pick as ready

This is my steps when it comes to preparing for a garden. I hope you enjoyed the garden blog, I look forward to planting my garden every year. Whether it’s because it means we are busting out of the house from the long Saskatchewan winter, or because I truly love growing my own food. Make sure you like the post, so I can do more on gardens.

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The New Normal

29th Apr 2020 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

Whether its getting Easter stuff, new splash pants for the kids or just trying to get a jug of milk! The way going out and getting your items is in the past. Out with the old in with the new!

There is limits on everything, line up to get into a store for groceries! This is what I have been told is the new normal!

I have not set out to a city yet, however it’s coming as I am running low on some key items in the house! I have never been so happy to be one who uses cloth diapers!

Keep 6 feet between everyone, don’t see your family, no friends over! This is what they are saying the new normal is?

Hi and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis if your new, go ahead and sign up to follow! If you are returning welcome back! I am or was a stay at home mom with 4 kiddos and a hubby for over 12 years.

My days have definitely changed a bit, with the hit of the pandemic, however things are only different in some regards. These are the “new” things to get used to I suppose!

What is the new normal in our house?

There is really only a couple things that got crazy here when the world got hit! These things are still taking time for me to get used to! I can’t imagine how it is of others who were not a set stay at home mom.

How are you doing?

Do you work strictly from home?

Does your partner stay home, if you have a front line job?

How are you coping with the “new normal”?

I am trying to gather everyone’s thoughts and issues in this house, trying to get them into a groove here!

With everyone in everyone’s bubble all day it can be hard, I’m finding it harder for the kids. The older kid’s are in school, so as our town only has one school from k-12. The older kid’s were still stuck together all day, as they were in the same school, also both will I elementary school they are still on the same side of school. They however still has their own class and friends that they called their own to seperate them for those hours in school.

Now, as their “new normal,” they share a classroom as it is the kitchen table, they don’t get that time away in their own classroom. They are with each other as we all are in the house right now.

With having such a variety of people and ages, it can get tricky to keep everyone under wraps. Between the kids they are 11,9,3 and 1, so we deffently have our hands full!

In our house the “new normal” is coming together, the kids have their morning, noon and evening routines. However they are not waking up, getting their stuff ready to head out the door for 6 hours, they are coming downstairs and getting ready to do the work at the table.

With school packages coming right to our door, with another couple booklets tp be delivered, I feel wrong routines will help greatly.

When it comes to groceries, we used to do a pickup while kids were in school, when my hubby was still in physio I could run in and back home before naps.

Now our “new normal”, has us preplanning, where to get groceries, we have been using our local store, but with such a big family, and being from a small community there is essentials that must come from the city.

Thungs tp prethink now like, what day are we going, is there days to wait for a pick up, what day lines up with paydays and possibilities of actually getting what you need!

I was always pretty good with meal planning, however with the “new normal”, I need to figure out how to step up my meal planning! What if there is a limit on what I need more of, what if I just cant get the stuff. There was always a possibility of not getting everything on your order, but the “new” is not getting most items especially common item’s, which is a big part of a stock up city trip! So I am getting ready to do a month quick meal planning to help me with my list, and hopefully have enough other stuff to do, or it should give me a chance to get it somewhere.

In the house they were used to getting used to ready to leave eveyday, even just to go to school. Now the “new”, when do we bust out of the house, who goes cause only one of us can go into the store!

What do we do for family time, that will get everyone out and content. Planning to get out but only once a week, if that is tricky. Ideally i try once every 2 weeks if not longer!

Explaining to the kids in the beginning, that they are not allowed in stored, at the park, out of the vehicle when we are some where! Now a month down the line they know they can’t go in places, like they used to. They know parks and activities are closed.With not being in town is a little easier, as we can at least get out and not worry about others being out!It is getting easier, maybe quicker for us, just as we didn’t do a whole lot out of the house.

How are your kids handling home bound?

How do you break up your days?

How is the “new normal” going for you?

I know we don’t know how long till things start to go back, but in this time, I am trying and so determined to get the best out of this. I am trying to get the house cleaned, no big reservations here as we are still getting settled anyways, hubby is still in recovery from this surgery so not much physical work for him. There is still much that can get done.With spring coming as ancy as I am for everything in the house, we are trying to get as much done for when it warms up more, and the snow disappears.

We are in Saskatchewan so it’s not as nice as some places. Maybe making things easier to be in, but hard also as it’s getting nicer but not summer nice lol. It’s been a long winter here….as always lol.

So how ever you are dealing with the “new normal” I hope you can stay positive, Stay safe, Stay healthy!

Take what you can from this and make memories!

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