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SUMMER CLEANING 🙄😭😱
A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY!
Hi and good morning! Happy Monday! I can’t believe how fast the week went by! Maybe it’s the time of year, maybe it’s the busy spring vibes! Whatever it is I’m hoping it slows down during the summer months!
With being a full time mom of 4 kids, a wife and home maker, days can tend to blur together, some days seem to last FOREVER!
I am trying to enjoy what life is throwing my way and enjoy the stage that’s I am in!
The stage where there is toys everywhere, followed with crumbs, clothes and something sticky!
I have been finding myself with blocking more and more time out for walks around the yard, kicking the ball and of coarse yard clean up! Always something to clean lol!
Something that I have recently started doing is blocking out more but shorter “tidy times”! As I’ve been learning more on how long certain chores take it makes it easier to set certain chores to certain times!
Let me explain what I mean! If I have a 20 minute window to do something before something else is set up then I will try to do either 4…5 minute tasks or I will do a bigger 20-30 minute task!
This has made it a little easier for me to break up whatever is zone that I am working in for that week into smaller bits throughout the week instead of trying to do more than what I need to do in the zone!
I can sometimes I actually get more done in a week in a certain area if I break it into smaller bits throughout the whole week! Instead of working for say an hour each day in the zone, where are some tasks that I’m trying to do that day won’t take an hour and I could actually be spending the rest of that time doing something else instead of being in that zone!
I have a couple blogs about zone cleaning I will leave linked down below! I love Zone cleaning I have done it for years now and it’s just a really nice way to break up your house and break up your chores to stay on top of everything just a little easier!
When I happen to have a chore or a zone that I cannot do with the littles or as easy, I will then try to do my other quicker tasks and easier tasks while they are up, then I take nap time for a bigger chores!
This is another reason why learning time frames for tasks was a little important for me!
With doing it this way, it really made me see how quick I could get some of the stuff actually done! To try to learn to break it up into bits and pieces this is when I can go from doing a quick 10-15 minute clean too quick 30 minute house clean!
When I mean with this is that say I am vacuuming the upstairs stairs, and everything is going okay kids are still playing good. I can then maybe vacuum Mason’s room that’s another five minutes if it’s picked up already oh, maybe I’ll try to vacuum my room that is one of the quickest rooms to vacuum it doesn’t have carpet but I like getting into whatever corners I can. Maybe everything keeps going good and then I can just keep on going well all of a sudden just like that all of the vacuuming is done in less time then telling myself to tackle “the whole house”.
This is were my routines also come in nice! I find this helps me not worrying about doubling the chore either!
Take the evening routine! I find this one probably the most important one too keep!
I find myself not as ancy about chores that I know will be part of the routine! If I need to clean the kitchen, I will take more time tackling other deeper cleaning tasks instead of do basic chores that I know will happen anyways later! Just a different way to help with times and chores!
There is so many things happening with summer coming but, with getting little bit done here and there is a good way for this house to learn to break up the day, and chores to make room for outside life!
I have routine blogs that I will link! I change my routines lots in the year! Depending on the time of year depends on the routine! For the most part they keep the same idea some chores change but the timeline is what can really change of course!
I am learning it doesn’t matter what time of the day the floors get done, or when the sinks get shined! These tasks will be there until I find that 5 minutes to get them in, or wait till the routine time!
“Little by little, task by task, it will a get done”
I hope this helps in finding time for those tasks!
Waiting for supper? Fold some laundry, clean out that junk drawer while your there! A little goes along way!
I will link my Instagram and Facebook! There is always fun there, with daily day to day mom life!
Until next week
Have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!
Bye for now!
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HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!
EVENING ROUTINE..COUNT DOWN TO BED!
MORE PLACES TO FIND ME!
SUNDAY PREP RESET MY THE WEEK!
Hi good morning, welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis.
How is your week?
I hope you had a good week! January is going good,, working on some goals vamping your routines?
Every week that I sit down and I get ready for the next week! I thought this blog I would take you a long so you could get ready for the week and see how we get ready for the week in this house!
Do you do a weekly reset day? The nice thing about a recent day is it can be any day that you have trying to reset for your following week!
This is something that I have done for years now and I am so happy I do! I had first really jumped into the bigger week prep after seeing I’m a video from Sam off of Happily a housewife! She is one of my favourite YouTubers and I have been watching her for years now!
With the kids going back to school they started a couple weeks ago now, noticed that I wasn’t doing the same weekly reset obviously is that I was doing! With that it changes to lots right because of the age and seasons in the time of year but no matter what I know I like to do some sort of a weekly reset or a Sunday prep day as I call it because it’s always on a Sunday it just really helps my week run as smooth as what I can possibly try to make it!
Like I said you can do it any day that you have the time to prep your week! If all you have is a Wednesday free go ahead and use your Wednesday to prep your week! The whole point about a weekly reset is that you can make your next week run as smooth and stress-free as what kind of can!
When it comes to my weekly reset there are some of the things that I always tried to get done!
I will usually try to get fruit and veggies washed and sliced put into containers into the fridge for the kids lunches through the week!
I tend to make bread on Sundays!
Any extra products that need to be made like my laundry detergent, fabric softener, baby wipes anything of that sort I’ll try to get made up on Sunday also!
I will try to get laundry that’s upstairs the kids laundry sorted and ready to go for the week oh, any clothes that is folded and needing to get put away we try to get them put away that day!
Also this is the day that the kids are asked to get their rooms cleaned up, wipe down and vacuumed!
Sundays are also a day that I will make sure that my planner is finished and ready to go, I will start to do some planning for the next week in it!
One more thing that I will try to do on Sunday if I have time and ambition, is to get a shower in and wash my hair and do a hair mask! This makes my hair feels so great and just ready for the week! I use the replenish Masque from Monat!
Have you ever heard of the company Monat? I’ll also leave a link below it’s a great company I will do a different blog again more about it later!
These are some of the typical things that I will do on my Sunday, as I have chores that usually do on certain days through the week!
If you want to know more about mine daily tasks give this blog a thumbs up and we will go through daily chores just as the way that I keep up with some of the chores between my zone cleaning and deep cleaning!
I find the weeks that I can do my Sunday prep as strong as what I can, my week tends to be not as chaotic and my stress doesn’t go up quite as fast! They’re of course or weeks that none of this gets done and I definitely feel the effects of it starting Monday all the way through Friday LOL!
I hope you enjoyed this blog about my Sunday reset, I hope it gave you a little bit of motivation to start a prep day in your house!
The prep does not have to be big it does not have to be exhausting, it is merely just to get what you think needs to be done to make your week smoother.
Make sure to go ahead and give this blog a like if you enjoyed it, I look forward to doing more blogs like this in the 2021 year as this year is all about just being strong and getting back to a smoother house!
Want more day-to-day mom stuff! More of my daily tasks, what I’m doing that day, just more of the personal side of my life make sure to check out my other social media pages!
I will leave links for Instagram and Facebook below and I would love for you to come check out those pages and say hi!
Until next week have an amazing day a wonderful weekend and a productive week! Bye for now!
GETTING MY ROUTINES BACK!
Hi good morning and welcome back to Classy Classic’s By Kandis!
How was your week last week?
Did you have a good first week of the new year?
Did you read last week’s blog?
All about the new year coming in! I will leave it linked below in case you didn’t get a chance to see it!
This week is pretty big for me in the house, I’m not even sure really where to start this week and so we’re just going to get through the week okay!
I thought this week we could talk about routines, cleaning, getting back to reality! Needing to get back in the habit of my routines, all of my routines that is. I have three main routines that we use morning afternoon and evening!
With it being the beginning of a new year that is a time that I liked to look over my routine since there’s nothing that’s jiving really well, but also I need to go to my routines because my kids went back to school!
There will be more stuff like this on my other social media page’s! Make sure you come on over to Facebook or Instagram after I’ll have two links down below at the bottom please just have a little more day today personal aspects of my life!
So, with the kids going back they haven’t been in school since last March, we went with remote learning for the first half so we could see how it was like! I had asked my kids what they wanted to do for the last half of the school year, and they said they wanted to give it a try and see what it was like! So just like that they are getting ready to get on to the bus!
This is why I said I guess I’ll sit down and go through my routines, and get everything as smooth running as what we can too to get through the rest of the school year and to have a great start to the 2021 year.
This is something that I will just sit down one day this week and pull out all the routines and I have on hand, old ones and some newer ones plus the one from remote learning that I had set up!
This way I can sit down and I can see what was working before to see what was working now and try to get the best of both routines set for the best productive outcome that we can!
Do you do routines?
Do you have one big routine, smaller routines, do you have an hourly outlay?
How do you do your routines or your schedules for the day?
I have lots of other blog post on my older routines that I will go ahead and list here!
A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!
AFTERNOON ROUTINE.. DON’T FORGET THE COFFEE!
EVENING ROUTINE..COUNT DOWN TO BED!
Routines have always being a strong impact in my house, and I look forward to getting back into a strong secure routine!
I also have zone cleaning that I used to keep up with some different tasks, I also have it daily tasks that I do along with my routines just to keep everything as controlled as I can!
HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!
So why go back through them, why deal with resetting them, re-cropping them?
It really is just because I always redoing my routine always looking at them!
They are always changes, needing to have a couple quick switches! Depending on the time of season literally as I live in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Also depending on the stage of the kids at the time, and all of that it really kind of changes. Not day by day, but definitely season-by-season and age by age!
I find if I can get back to my routines, especially now that the kids are back in school, that it can definitely help me have a more productive day, have more time for myself, but, also have more play time for the littles that are still at home.
I still have two kids that are at home. One that is four and one that is two. So I am still very busy. My schedules are only so flexible as I have toddlers that try to run my life. And so I find if they can have a nice routine. It kind of balances out their time too, and they know that Mommy will get play time, but mommy also needs her time, but mommy also needs some cleaning time.
How do you restart your routines when it comes to trying to get the chaos back under control?
Over the last week I thought I would start with one routine at at a time as that’s going to be the easiest way I think without getting overwhelmed!
So if you are into routines and trying just stay on track, while still trying to be a mom do the laundry get the supper on the table but, hopefully you will join me in the next couple weeks.
Getting routines back together kids back under somewhat control, and we’re going to get going on 2021.
Make sure you hit the like button down below so I know to keep going with my blogs. I’m not real sure what 2021 has in store. I just know that I am really enjoying blogging and having all of you with me through this year.
Make sure you join the fun. Follow the blog put your email in to get notifications of when I upload I do aim to upload every Monday as some extra Monday motivation. For myself and and you also for the week.
You want a little more?
Daily fun tips tricks and just my days make sure you follow on my other social media pages I tried to post. Daily on news it just of what me and the kiddos are up to! I’ll leave a link to those down below. For easy access to come and join all the fun over there!
So until next week. Have a wonderful day, a fun weekend and a productive week.
Bye for now.
ME TIME FOR THE NEW YEAR!
Hi good morning welcome back to Classic Classics by Kandis.
How was your Christmas?
I hope you had a lovely, quiet, peaceful family, loving time, with the slowness of what this year had brought whether we wanted it or not, I had stsrtes looking forward to having a quiet family Christmas.
The way that I seen it coming Christmas morning was all the joy and excitement in Christmas magic is still there with all the littles.
I have to believe that having a 2020 Christmas the way that it was laid out, with actually not a bad thing!
All of a sudden restrictions got put into place and nobody was allowed at the house, there was no extra people to come and no big holiday traditions or parties happening!
But, when I think about it Christmas is still all about just having the family around.
The joy I seen was just have the children wake up, they still have the excitement in their eyes and joy in their hearts!
There is so much that was simplified but made even greater with what was happening still.
All of a sudden, there wasn’t as much pressure in this much chaos to go into Christmas this year!
What better for Christmas morning then to get up and have coffee and just watch the children have excitement over the gifts that are under the tree.
So, as 2021 shows up and if covid is still here, with how things are still going we don’t know what 2021 is going to bring!
I thought to end 2020 and the start 2021, what a better way than to just calm down and try to have some me time and family time!
To wake up on Christmas morning and to realize with covid not a whole lot changed just some a little!
Yes, there was no gatherings, no main Christmas traditions, however, Christmas still came Santa still came, coffee still tastes delicious Christmas morning, and still having a Christmas supper!
We may not have all of her loved ones around us at the Christmas table, or around the Christmas tree!
But, our loved ones are doing the same thing they are sitting at their their kitchen table, are hanging around their Christmas tree!
With that, this is a way that we can still stay connected! It’s like when you were little and you hear about being told to look up at the moon or the stars when you miss somebody and know that when they look at the stars that you were both looking at the same one and that is how you can be connected!
With that all I can tell my kids is it’s not going to be forever our family will be around our Christmas tree and the dinner table again!
For this year as hard as it was in the beginning I am thankful that I got to take that time to spend with just my family!
I mean my main squad if you will the ones that are always there for me, always with me!
So, long story short I guess what I want to take out of the 2020 year is that no matter what the ones that we are stuck with the ones that we are always with is the true meaning of Christmas!
I’m hoping I can take some of this meaning and some of the slow dance with me into 2021. In hopes that this covid-19 go away or give us part of our life back, there are some aspects that I need or want to take out of this year!
I I’m looking forward probably almost more than other years, I am looking forward to finding my New Year’s word. Do you pick a new word for every year? My word lost her was believe, because you always just have to believe. Last year I started my year with the word believe as you have to believe that it happened for a reason, you have to believe that there is a way, you have to believe that it happened for a reason!
2020 was a really crazy year for everybody, and with how the year ended up rolling out because I had picked my word before 2020 hit right! I now believe even more but I picked the perfect word for 2020. I picked it for reasons in our life that I needed that word, and then even more stuff happened that made me happy to have my word be believe last year!
I look forward to sitting down and getting my new word, I do not do New Year’s resolutions to a degree. I try to have goals for myself the family the house and maybe some outside goals I try to keep my goals as realistic and simple and promising as I can!
This will be one of the blogs coming up soon after the New Year’s hit!
I wanted to take this time and to take this blog too wish all of you a very safe and merry Christmas.
I hope you had a wonderful year, I hope you have a magical Christmas!
I wanted to take this time to say thank you to everybody who is followed me through this blog it means a lot!
And as always if you enjoyed this blog give it a like and make sure to leave a comment down below!
Also make sure you are following my other social media pages I will be giving out more Merry Christmas shout outs there!
I will make sure to leave a link down below for Facebook and Instagram! Make sure you come on over and follow them for the new year it’s going to be an awesome 2021!
For now even with Christmas over from my family to yours I would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a wonderful warm and safe New Year!
Until next week, have a great day, a relaxing weekend and a amazing week!
By for now!
DECEMBER FAVOURITES!
Hi good morning welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis. It is definitely starting to look like Christmas, we all like Christmas and the stores are definitely looking like it’s almost Christmas.
With how this year is going and by the looks that January is going to still kind of be the same so, I thought why not share with you some of my December favourites.
This year I started Christmas early well I started getting ready for Christmas early. Did you read the blog on the holiday prep earlier?
If not I will leave a link for that blog down below!
Now like always just like every other year I made sure to wait until after Remembrance Day, but I was sure ready for the holiday season to start here.
This year I took a different approach to things or at least I definitely tried, that is what I was talking about on my blog with keeping Christmas simple!
I will also leave a link to that blog down below!
How are you handling stuff this year for Christmas?
With my kids being all home doing remote learning I was taking this time to try to have them really see and enjoy all the fun that happens in the house in December.
This is because they are always usually in school yes my oldest will be turning 12 right away, and my oldest son just turned 10!
I actually have his cake recipes that I made the other week on last week’s blog all about treats in the kitchen!
I will also leave a link for that blog down below for you to check out!
It has been a busy, fun, wonky year this year! I have really enjoyed doing my weekly blogs and what the holiday season around it has been even more fun!
So, I thought with all the hustle and bustle that this week has brought with more restrictions coming in, Christmas still right around the corner, and the anticipation of Christmas still upon us I thought I would take that this week’s blog I would just take you around and show you some of my favourites!
I thought with Christmas here and all the cute things that have been floating around social media there are definitely some cute Christmas stuff!
I’m not even sure where to start with this blog so, I’m just going to go for it and show you some wintry December items!
My first favourite December thing will have to be our hot chocolate and coffee station. I love this hot chocolate station, I had set it up probably four or five years ago when I started, every year the kids and I are so excited to get it setup, the kids loved it for the hot chocolate and I love it because it looks so cute! This year I took out some of our like everyday cups, and I put our Christmas cups into our cupboard just so that they weren’t out for the littles to touch and probably break!
Another thing that I guess I should probably put onto my December favourites, is all the pretty decorations! This year I added a couple more, I definitely purged my Christmas decorations oh, anything that was broke, or just really scruffy looking I ended up tossing out! I will point out some of the tinsel I was using was around 10 years old! I bought new tinsel this year along with a couple cute new Christmas decorations. This is probably one of my favourite things about Christmas or the holiday season is all the pretty decorations in the lights.
I would have to say that one of my other favourite December things, is that I love how merry everybody gets, yes I do realize not everybody does!
I however, believe that some days I am happy enough for everybody who has a grumpy holiday spirit!
With the cute holiday outfits and what I find to be some of the cutest leggings that I can wear this time of year I also love all the baking, and the Christmas spirit that people give out this time of year.
I would have usually have handed out cookie trays this year with covid-19 or I decided it would be better off not you even though I live in a small town I’m sure it all would have been fine but I didn’t want to deal with the restrictions and the Hubba Bubba I’m trying to figure out how to get the cookies properly to the people.
So I do have to say that for my third thing is going to be a double thing and that is the cute holiday clothing and the Christmas baking.
That will do it for this blog on my December favourites! I have never done a favourites blog before it was actually very fun.
Make sure to leave in the comments down below what’s your favourite December favourite is!
What was something you were the most excited about putting up this year for Christmas?
Make sure you like this blog if you enjoy that so I know to go ahead and do more favourite blogs in the upcoming year! I am looking forward to having a great year in 2021 and lots of upcoming fun for the blogs!
Make sure you are following the blog also so you can get notifications of when I upload, I aim to upload every Monday and I have the intentions of doing just that if not more, come the new year!
Also don’t forget to follow me and my other social media Pages Instagram and Facebook, I tend to post more day-to-day fun tips and tricks, just kind of anything this, mama is doing that day in the house!
I will leave the links to these pages down below.
Until next week have an amazing day, a productive week and of course an amazing Merry Christmas.
Until next week by for now!
BUDGETING ENVELOPE TO KEEP YOU ON TRACK!
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! ☕
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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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Until next blog, have a wonderful day, a budgeting weekend, and a perductive week!
FINDING YOUR BUDGET!
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!
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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