First blog... staying home

An attempt at blogging… with 3 kids and no head space….

Where did the words that I used to have go? I remember back in the days when I thought I had no time, I had so much to say, so much to write, and so many hugs to give! What happened? This is an attempt to write, to see if I can put myself back with the same mind I once had, and still be the mummy I am today, setting new challenges, and maybe with an audience, see those goals achieved. My challenge this week is to stay home all week. I failed this morning, and I took the kids out to visit dad. LOL. That doesn’t count as going out… technically… J just so you know, today is only Tuesday. Glancing at the clock it is 1:22pm !!! There is that number I always have given to me! Number 22. Will elaborate on that some time… another day.

So I usually do a clean out of my pantry once every few months, I know I did it not very long ago, maybe even weeks… But today, I realize it needs to be done again. This time with a new challenge! I have a thermomix, and I need to use my thermomix for what I intended it for. To save money, and to eat better.. I have made one step since getting it, and that is eating better.. We do eat out less, but we do still like to eat out. I want to change that, to actually not wanting to eat out very much at all. So cleaning out the pantry, I want to see what I have hiding in there, as I sent the husband to the shop yesterday to get some salt… today I saw that we had salt! Not happy. It was hiding! Frustrating. We lost about $4 I guess. That isn’t very much… But at this point, I’d like to think of it as a lot because I want to change the way we spend to see what we can save. We did not have to spend $4 yesterday. Times that 7 days in a week, and I know that we always randomly spend $4 every day, we waste $28 !! That is, in my eyes, half of the money I need to visit Veronica and her horses. I could have been there the following week! BUT NO! We wasted $4. I will get to talking about Veronica and the horses sometime soon J

So cleaning out the pantry, seeing what we have in there, and doing up a meal plan, based on what we have… no more running to the shop buying stuff every day, and adding it to the abyss that I call pantry.

Staying home all week… Not spending any un-necessary money… making meal plan with what I have. Today is Tuesday.