Oh man, I have been very busy so as you can see...there isn't anything on my poor blog.
First things first...I have been earning money!! I'm taking care of my friends daughter which is really nice for two reasons. 1) Simon loves playing with her and 2) it's money in my pocket!
Then I had my first Tupperware party this past Friday. It was a success and I earned $100 just from showing my friends Tupperware. I was nervous and that day was a packed one. If it weren't for my husband working from home, I wouldn't have gotten nearly as much done because I needed him to keep an eye on the kids while I went and ran some errands.
I'm getting a hang of the whole Tupperware thing and I hope this is something I can do long term. It's pretty fun and it is a way of making money and saving people money at the same time.
I've been getting the house in order because, well because when my house is in order, I feel my life is in order. I'm coming to grips with reality. I would love to be 100% debt free and have 6 months reserves in our account but the reality is we will always have some debt. Getting out of control is one thing, but having revolving debt is another. I know I know...no debt is best but I'm being real.
I have read and read and read about Dave Ramsey and talked to a lot of women who do the program and in theory it sounds like a great and reasonable idea but to be honest...it's just not for me. The idea of putting every single penny towards paying off debt just makes me cringe because when is the fun? If we made enough to have fun and pay off debt every month well that's a different story, but we're one of the millions of families that have some debt (not a whole lot but debt is debt) that can't afford to be 100% debt free at the moment.
I know my husband would like to be and one of the reasons I'm working is to pay off debt but I don't want to pressure myself. It will get paid and there will always be that bit of outstanding, revolving debt, and I'm now okay with that. Of course this in no way means that I want to have all of our cards maxed out and us to have 50,000 worth of debt...HELL NO!! But that bit of small revolving debt doesn't bother me as much as it was. I just have a plan of how much I'm going to pay towards our credit cards per month to at least half them within the year. Luckily it's a low amount per month but it's enough to make a difference.
So it's the end of summer and I really couldn't be happier. I cannot wait until fall!! October is my absolute favorite time of the year to be honest and I know it's silly but I love all of the scary movies that come on during that time. Halloween is one of my all time favorite scary movies and probably the only movie that scares the crap out of me. I, to this day will turn the commercials when they come on for Halloween because the music and the mask scare me! Okay...so enough of the scary movies, I also love fall because the temperature drops. Drops...I didn't say gets cold. Being in Texas, we don't get the nice chill, we just get temperatures that aren't a degree below the temperature of hell. We at least will be in the low 90's or even high 80's.
After October comes Thanksgiving! Another one of my favorite holidays. I love getting together, eating, drinking, playing games etc...The colors of fall are my favorite and it just gets me all excited.
Of course the day after Thanksgiving starts the Christmas music on Majic 95.5 and that right there just makes me giddy! I know listening to Christmas music for almost a month straight is insane, but I really love almost all of the Christmas songs!! Well except for Barbara Mandrells version of Jingle Bells...she sounds like she's on speed and I have to turn the radio off for that.
Well to all of my blog readers...I am truly sorry for being such a bad blogger, I will do my best to blog as much as I can this week!!
First things first...I have been earning money!! I'm taking care of my friends daughter which is really nice for two reasons. 1) Simon loves playing with her and 2) it's money in my pocket!
Then I had my first Tupperware party this past Friday. It was a success and I earned $100 just from showing my friends Tupperware. I was nervous and that day was a packed one. If it weren't for my husband working from home, I wouldn't have gotten nearly as much done because I needed him to keep an eye on the kids while I went and ran some errands.
I'm getting a hang of the whole Tupperware thing and I hope this is something I can do long term. It's pretty fun and it is a way of making money and saving people money at the same time.
I've been getting the house in order because, well because when my house is in order, I feel my life is in order. I'm coming to grips with reality. I would love to be 100% debt free and have 6 months reserves in our account but the reality is we will always have some debt. Getting out of control is one thing, but having revolving debt is another. I know I know...no debt is best but I'm being real.
I have read and read and read about Dave Ramsey and talked to a lot of women who do the program and in theory it sounds like a great and reasonable idea but to be honest...it's just not for me. The idea of putting every single penny towards paying off debt just makes me cringe because when is the fun? If we made enough to have fun and pay off debt every month well that's a different story, but we're one of the millions of families that have some debt (not a whole lot but debt is debt) that can't afford to be 100% debt free at the moment.
I know my husband would like to be and one of the reasons I'm working is to pay off debt but I don't want to pressure myself. It will get paid and there will always be that bit of outstanding, revolving debt, and I'm now okay with that. Of course this in no way means that I want to have all of our cards maxed out and us to have 50,000 worth of debt...HELL NO!! But that bit of small revolving debt doesn't bother me as much as it was. I just have a plan of how much I'm going to pay towards our credit cards per month to at least half them within the year. Luckily it's a low amount per month but it's enough to make a difference.
So it's the end of summer and I really couldn't be happier. I cannot wait until fall!! October is my absolute favorite time of the year to be honest and I know it's silly but I love all of the scary movies that come on during that time. Halloween is one of my all time favorite scary movies and probably the only movie that scares the crap out of me. I, to this day will turn the commercials when they come on for Halloween because the music and the mask scare me! Okay...so enough of the scary movies, I also love fall because the temperature drops. Drops...I didn't say gets cold. Being in Texas, we don't get the nice chill, we just get temperatures that aren't a degree below the temperature of hell. We at least will be in the low 90's or even high 80's.
After October comes Thanksgiving! Another one of my favorite holidays. I love getting together, eating, drinking, playing games etc...The colors of fall are my favorite and it just gets me all excited.
Of course the day after Thanksgiving starts the Christmas music on Majic 95.5 and that right there just makes me giddy! I know listening to Christmas music for almost a month straight is insane, but I really love almost all of the Christmas songs!! Well except for Barbara Mandrells version of Jingle Bells...she sounds like she's on speed and I have to turn the radio off for that.
Well to all of my blog readers...I am truly sorry for being such a bad blogger, I will do my best to blog as much as I can this week!!
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