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I've had a lot of wins recently.
I got 35 items picked up at consignment today. Big deal because whatever doesn't sell gets donated. Whatever was passed over I donated. So in all i disposed of like 6 boxes of stuff so around 100 pieces of stuff easily. I also did a goodwill run already on Sunday of 3 bags and 2 boxes of stuff. My DH said "LAL you are boiling the ocean, please try to do something". He admitted I boiled the ocean and got through something.
So over the past 3 months we had a bit of a tiff over the amount of stuff in the pantry and freezer. I stopped cold turkey buying stuff. Nothing for the freezer, nothing for the pantry unless absolutely we ran out. And now one of our freezers is empty and the other one is so empty the kids said woah the freezer is empty. I also pulled out items from the pantry last week and ate it. I ate a bunch of stuff these past two weeks from the freezer. I have a plan for four more items from the pantry by Sunday. Win is not spending money and eating what we have.
Seriously I know what I just said sounds stupid but it's really stressful sometimes in our space to use it efficiently and I get overwhelmed with the amount of stuff we have jammed into a smaller space for four people. I also gave away 2 dressers and 2 file cabinets today. Our house is finally appearing again.
Financial wins? Checked my airline tickets and saved another $300 by rebuying them. I checked the hotels and saved another $500 for our trip to Japan in August. I managed to use the first class upgrade coupons we had on two different flights. Means I got free value from them. Sometimes they go to waste and we can't use it.
I do CC arbitage and charge and leave the money sitting in the money market for an extra 60 days. Like paying for our new paint job on the house. It's not due until September and I paid it in July. I know it's like an extra $80 but it's something. I do it with all big ticket items along with earning points for CC charges.
Also sometimes like last month I earned an extra $3 from charging shake shack on my CC. All these little freebies are nice adding up.
I got 35 items picked up at consignment today. Big deal because whatever doesn't sell gets donated. Whatever was passed over I donated. So in all i disposed of like 6 boxes of stuff so around 100 pieces of stuff easily. I also did a goodwill run already on Sunday of 3 bags and 2 boxes of stuff. My DH said "LAL you are boiling the ocean, please try to do something". He admitted I boiled the ocean and got through something.
So over the past 3 months we had a bit of a tiff over the amount of stuff in the pantry and freezer. I stopped cold turkey buying stuff. Nothing for the freezer, nothing for the pantry unless absolutely we ran out. And now one of our freezers is empty and the other one is so empty the kids said woah the freezer is empty. I also pulled out items from the pantry last week and ate it. I ate a bunch of stuff these past two weeks from the freezer. I have a plan for four more items from the pantry by Sunday. Win is not spending money and eating what we have.
Seriously I know what I just said sounds stupid but it's really stressful sometimes in our space to use it efficiently and I get overwhelmed with the amount of stuff we have jammed into a smaller space for four people. I also gave away 2 dressers and 2 file cabinets today. Our house is finally appearing again.
Financial wins? Checked my airline tickets and saved another $300 by rebuying them. I checked the hotels and saved another $500 for our trip to Japan in August. I managed to use the first class upgrade coupons we had on two different flights. Means I got free value from them. Sometimes they go to waste and we can't use it.
I do CC arbitage and charge and leave the money sitting in the money market for an extra 60 days. Like paying for our new paint job on the house. It's not due until September and I paid it in July. I know it's like an extra $80 but it's something. I do it with all big ticket items along with earning points for CC charges.
Also sometimes like last month I earned an extra $3 from charging shake shack on my CC. All these little freebies are nice adding up.
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