It Feels Good

Twins of the cloth

As we have analyzed our budget, adopted Dave Ramsey's plan in full mode once again and budgeted to the penny we have found that we have the ability to nickel and dime ourselves into a moneyless void. We have also found expenditures that are just completely unnecessary or that we could do without. With 2 babies, that I am quite convinced sport tubes that go from mouth to butt, we are spending 125.00 a month in diapers alone....despite buying these at Sam's in bulk price! Once seeing it in receipt form and on paper I willingly and happily volunteered to go back to our cloth diapering ways. I already make all of our homemade wet wipes just because we get such better results with them, but the ease of disposables has won out up until this point. Surprisingly, at least for me, it just picked right back up where we seemed to have left off and it's no more work than what I was already managing. It doesn't seem like much more to throw a load of diapers in at the end of each day. I forgot how absolutely much I love babies in huge, fat, fluffy, padded cloth diapers. Sweet baby boys.

Jailbirds. This is what happens when you start crawling and will NOT stay out of anything and gag on everything. In order to get some work done and some of this stuff knocked out this is where my sweet little duo had to go.

Oh, the joy of cleaning out!!! This seriously could get addictive. Among many of the items to go have been these massive things. The Lord has greatly blessed our endeavors, diligence and desire to get the debt paid off and so far everything has sold within the first 48 hours. It's beginning to get so much fun as we watch the money roll in and begin applying it to the debt we have. Husband has picked up every overtime shift he can and tripled his paychecks, along iwth continuing to run the water plant. He's gone quite a bit but it's nothing we haven't survived before. We both have a goal we are working towards as a family and there is such reward in seeing it in action as we succeed at it.

Sold!

Sold within 8 hours

Sold within 24 hours

Prospects looming

Interested emails. Waiting to hear back. And yep...the floor desperately needs to be vacuumed. The only place we own carpet happens to be in the playroom, of all places. And I couldn't fit the vacuum cleaner around it all to vacuum. By the time this picture happened I was so tired of moving, picking up and rearranging weights, hauling stuff down from the attic.....like huge dressers and 12 large, stuffed boxes of books.....the carpet didn't really seem all that important. Somehow it seems painfully important as I study the picture though!

One of my workers hard at it helping out the cause and downsizing. It just feels good to be weightless.


12 overflowing boxes of books - being bid on right now on Ebay!

The 9 boxes waiting to be sold. Most are on Ebay as of today!

9 gone...only 3 that got to stay.
Gone within 24 hours!

Gone within 24 hours!

Gone within 24 hours!

With the money generated by all of this we have been successfuly able to pay off two of our debts. And we already had paid off 2 from the tax return. 4 down, 3 to go! We're over half way there. This give new motivation to paring down and dehoarding one's life.

Clothes and books were the most overwhelming obstacles in my mind to overcome, as they got a little out of control. But, after only 1 afternoon spent on books and having the "if the house burned down" mentality it proved to move swiftly. And admittedly, the more I toss the better it feels. I had 2 boxes beside me to sort books. One keep box and one sell box. I tossed into the sell box but stacked into the keep box. It was much easier to toss it in than it was to stack it in, so motivation to toss was great. After it was all said and done I organized the sell pile and started listing on Ebay.

Hopefully, clothes prove to go that well also.