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From Cath's Desk
Hello Cheapskaters,
Welcome to the January Journal and to 2017!
A brand new year, full of promise, just waiting for you.
I was given a beautiful new diary for Christmas. It was the perfect gift, I just love stationery and I love, love, love diaries. I've been using diaries to keep track of important dates and events, appointments, what I need to do, where I need to go and just about everything else since I was in high school.
This diary is so pretty, full of blank pages just waiting for me to fill them up.
As I was adding dates and events and names, getting organised for the year ahead, I was thinking about how busy the year ahead already was - and at that time it hadn't even started!
Wowsers! It was time to stop and really think about what I wanted to add to those pages. When we started living the Cheapskates way we made the decision to ditch the things that weren't important to us so we would have the money to spend on the things that were.
My time is important to me. Time for family. Time for home. Time for friends. Time for gardening. Time for cardmaking. Time for me.
I started going through the pages I'd filled in, checking to see that every appointment, event, job was important to me. And I became very brave. If I found something that wasn't important, I ditched it. Out it went, from my diary and my life.
And suddenly I had more time, for all the things that are important to me, and for all the things that may become important to me in 2017.
If you are like me and have a lot of things already on your plate for the new year, take some time. Step back, think about what you put in your diary, or on your calendar or into your life and de-clutter the unimportant stuff.
We live the Cheapskates way so we can enjoy the things that are important to us and we ditch the unimportant, and that's not just financially. It's household items, acquaintances that bring us down, ugly thoughts and feelings.
Make it your new year's resolution to concentrate on the good things in your life, the things that make you smile and keep you and your family happy and secure and de-clutter the rest.
May 2017 to be the best year of your life so far.
Welcome to the January Journal and to 2017!
A brand new year, full of promise, just waiting for you.
I was given a beautiful new diary for Christmas. It was the perfect gift, I just love stationery and I love, love, love diaries. I've been using diaries to keep track of important dates and events, appointments, what I need to do, where I need to go and just about everything else since I was in high school.
This diary is so pretty, full of blank pages just waiting for me to fill them up.
As I was adding dates and events and names, getting organised for the year ahead, I was thinking about how busy the year ahead already was - and at that time it hadn't even started!
Wowsers! It was time to stop and really think about what I wanted to add to those pages. When we started living the Cheapskates way we made the decision to ditch the things that weren't important to us so we would have the money to spend on the things that were.
My time is important to me. Time for family. Time for home. Time for friends. Time for gardening. Time for cardmaking. Time for me.
I started going through the pages I'd filled in, checking to see that every appointment, event, job was important to me. And I became very brave. If I found something that wasn't important, I ditched it. Out it went, from my diary and my life.
And suddenly I had more time, for all the things that are important to me, and for all the things that may become important to me in 2017.
If you are like me and have a lot of things already on your plate for the new year, take some time. Step back, think about what you put in your diary, or on your calendar or into your life and de-clutter the unimportant stuff.
We live the Cheapskates way so we can enjoy the things that are important to us and we ditch the unimportant, and that's not just financially. It's household items, acquaintances that bring us down, ugly thoughts and feelings.
Make it your new year's resolution to concentrate on the good things in your life, the things that make you smile and keep you and your family happy and secure and de-clutter the rest.
May 2017 to be the best year of your life so far.
