Having two pay periods in a month has been a challenge for my budget. I have struggled for years with how to divide my expenses between the two. I got help from Lauren from My Something Beautiful Life. Lauren suggested I make three columns. The first column has a list of all my bills and…
Money Makes My Brain Hurt
Budgeting, keeping track of my expenses, trying to get out of debt and stay out of debt, paying bills on time, and saving money–these are the things that I struggle with consistently. While doing things online helps, it also confuses me. Let me try to explain. When I make my budget and allot a certain…
How My Planner Helps Me Plan
Guess what? A planner can only be useful if you use it! I know!! What a discovery, right? I kind of knew that. But I didn’t internalize the concept. I stumbled on this deeper realization because of my distress about being so overwhelmed, unorganized and forgetting so many things. As I tried to find answers,…
Daily Simplicity and Prioritizing
When I was first married, I noticed that my mother-in-law had a great way of planning her week. She would take a piece of plain paper and fold it in half one way and in four the other way so that there were eight spaces. Then she would label the squares with the days of…
Questions May Be the Answer
Overwhelm!! It’s been almost a constant for me lately. I just feel an urgency to do things that matter and stop wasting time on things that don’t mean as much to me. So, why is it then, ironically, I end up doing some things that I consider barely productive when I am struggling to prioritize…
What Matters Most
Sometimes I wake up in the morning overwhelmed with things to do and they all seem so important. I feel paralyzed because I’m not sure which is most important. Often I stop to make a list of things that are important to me, which is a very foundational step. But I find myself doing this…
I’m Back!
After many months (years?!?) of not posting here, I have decided I need to do this to hold myself accountable. Even if no one ever sees this, I’m hoping it will help me focus on simplifying my own life. Fingers crossed…. Here goes!
Doing it Simply
So… I’m starting a blog site. This is the first one I’ve ever written. I want my blogs to be about simplifying life. I have spent a good part of my life trying to simplify my life. And I still need to simplify more. There are so many things I could do more simply, and…