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!

If so, make sure you like it so I can keep making blogs on these topics.

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