My Minimal Hoarding Life - 2019 Resolutions Made

Many people make resolutions and work on them one month and give up, but life is not that easy, some thing take time. So give your self a year to get things accomplished or try to get them accomplished. We cant always make it every time but what does it hurt to try? 

While others got for "goals" that is fine too, at least you have dreams you want to work on.

I write mine down, some where some one said if you write them down and hang them where you can see them you are more than likely to keep up your deal you made with yourself in January.

I take it one step up, I post how I do monthly right here for others to see. For people to know that my life is not a bed of roses and that I do work hard for what I want.

I usually make a word, or phrase, of how I plan to be for the year and this year I have chosen " Dream it, Do It." I chose this because I am making my dreams come true a little at a time, the time to get them finished is now. 

Here are my 2019 resolutions :

1 - Reduce Spending By Half

Its time to crack open those books and see where all my hard earned money is going. One place I already know and that is monthly utilities. The plan is to find out why they are so expensive and find a less expensive way to live.

2 - Reduce Stuff By Half

I love being minimal and I want to get back to myself. This year I will get rid of the inheritance I received back in 2015, it has only slowed me down. While I do love the "big" stuff I feel happier with the smaller stuff so I will be unloading all of it this year.

3 - Set Up Sunshine`s Homestead Creations Store

While I have the online store it limits me in what I want to sell, the creations that I get from the homestead are so much more than I can ship, the cost for shipping is not worth it. 

4 -  Cut Out Sweets - Kick diabetes ass!

The passed couple of years I have not been doing the right thing by the diabetes, this hurts no one but me so I have to be accountable for my actions. Food is the hardest addiction to break but I am up to the challenge.

There I did not make them as hard to accomplish as last year, but hard enough that I have to put effort in to get them done.

How about you, how do you want to improve your life in 2019?

By Andria Perry

Photo By Pixabay and Andria Perry

My Minimal Hoarding Life - 2018 December Resolution Check In - Fail Or Not?

Here we are! the last month of the year 2018 and what a whirl wind it has been. Lets see how things turned out for the last 12 months.

I make four resolutions, or goals, to accomplish each year. Some years I make it with all of them, some years I do not. Usually two are easy and two are hard.

I have began to pick a word, or words, that I try to also apply to my life for the year. This year I chose the words "No Regrets" because I do not want to regret a single thing I go for this year, whether I make it all the way or I fail, I will learn either way and make myself better.

What are my resolutions? 

1- Stop buying - Grow more

I don`t think I bought anymore than I have in any other month.

I think I have cut down on the amount of food and I do not feel the need to shop for stuff.

I did get a couple Christmas gifts, all because I have waited for a sale to get those items.

Growing in December? Sure greens and turnips.

I will rate this month at 75% accomplishment

2 - Clear land - Set up rentals

Well, No. This one will not happen this year. Its the rainy season now so no way did this one happen.

100% fail.

3 - Clean, declutter and organize

Yes, I have continued the cleaning and getting rid of more junk.

While I gave gifts of homemade stuff, jellies and jams, lotions and the like, So that was more going out.

I also packed up more of that inheritance I got back in 2015, while I do love the stuff its time to move on, clean it out, sell it or something. It never was my style but I still liked it, sounds weird? Yeah I know.

This one is a 100% accomplishment.

4 - Take a vacation

I was headed out to the door, so to speak, I had plans to do Christmas on the beach but..... work happened and I could not go.

Well maybe in 2019 I will take that fabulous week long vacation.

100% fail.

So now that I am at the end of this years resolutions lets look back at how I did and how I did not do.

#1 resolution was more accomplishments during the year than not so I did it. Pat my self on the back!

#2 resolution was one of the hardest of all and I failed all year but I did give things a try a couple times. I will continue working on this one.

#3 was another tough one for the year, I had so much work that I just did not find the time to get in that vacation. 100 % failed. But like I said I will keep trying in the year 2019.

OHHHH! My word(s) for the year?

No Regrets.

I will say that everything I did this year was with thought before action. I do not regret one single thing I did. I built a business from a simple idea to making money. I have stood on my own two feet without help for most of the year. 

No regrets at all in 2018.

Now..... I need to take a good look at my life now and ask myself " what do I need to improve?"

How did you do with your resolutions for the year of 2018?

By Andria Perry

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My Minimal Hoarding Life - 2018 November Resolution Check In

Wow! A month already gone but that is life, we have to make the best of the time we have because before you know it, time has slipped passed us. Don`t put off what we can do today till tomorrow.

I make four resolutions, or goals, to accomplish each year. Some years I make it with all of them, some years I do not. Usually two are easy and two are hard.

I have began to pick a word, or words, that I try to also apply to my life for the year. This year I chose the words "No Regrets" because I do not want to regret a single thing I go for this year, whether I make it all the way or I fail, I will learn either way and make myself better.

What are my resolutions? 

1- Stop buying - Grow more

With this resolution I did really good ..... then..... black Friday. I did buy a couple things but not much.

As far as grocery shopping I have only bought what I was out of, eating more from what I already had frozen.

I have accomplished this 90%

2 - Clear land - Set up rentals

Well, No. This one will not happen this year. Its the rainy season now so.

100% fail.

3 - Clean, declutter and organize

Yes I have.

I got rid of a few more shirts when I switched out summer for winter in the closets, these I did not wear these this past summer so out they went.

I cleaned out the office " catch all" closet. I loaded up a bag for donation and a trash bag of coats that was no longer worn and just hanging out.I got rid of a back massager and another sweater, also just hanging around in this closet. I added one shelf to the office for the business products, looks better and I have at a glance of what I have

I went through all the home canned stockpile and put them back in order so I know where the jams and jellies are and where the vegetables are so to go right to them when I am cooking.

I began to clean out a deep freezer, I have two, because I simply don`t need all of it and I don`t want to go to waste.

This is a 100% accomplished.

4 - Take a vacation

Nope! Not yet. I still have a month to jump in the car and it would most certainly be south since its wintertime. 

Who knows maybe this will happen, maybe not.

I`m one of those "if its meant to be, it`ll be" people.

100% failed.

Now that its December with 30 days left in the year of 2018 I will look back and see where I went wrong and why, try to fix it and continue on with the journey, and add four new resolutions for the new year coming.

How did you do with your resolutions for November? 

By Andria Perry

Photos by Andria Perry

My Minimal Hoarding Life - 2018 October Resolution Check In

Wow! A month already gone but that is life, we have to make the best of the time we have because before you know it, time has slipped passed us. Don`t put off what we can do today till tomorrow.

I make four resolutions, or goals, to accomplish each year. Some years I make it with all of them, some years I do not. Usually two are easy and two are hard.

I have began to pick a word, or words, that I try to also apply to my life for the year. This year I chose the words "No Regrets" because I do not want to regret a single thing I go for this year, whether I make it all the way or I fail, I will learn either way and make myself better.

What are my resolutions? 

1- Stop buying - Grow more

I can say that this month I did do better with the shopping, I have not bought as much foods as I have before, I have cooked more from the deep freezer and the stock pile, only buying lettuce and dairy.

I have not shopped for "things" other than supplies for Sunshine`s Homestead Creations  and the rental houses.

Since its the fall of the year I am collecting greens from the garden and that is all I have left, I have yet to learn year round vegetable growing. I am beginning to get nuts also, I will, if possible clean and freeze those.

I have accomplished this 100% for October.

2 - Clear land - Set up rentals

I can say exactly what I said last month. 

Nope. Just No.

Sure I think about it, daydream what it`ll look like but as far as action? No. 

I knew this one would be a hard one to accomplish but hey! there are still two months left in this year.

100% fail.

3 - Clean, declutter and organize

Yes, I have been cleaning the house, I have kept the organization up and I know where things are that I use daily, however, I could get rid of more stuff.

I may actually have to add a shelf to the office because of the store stuff, but it does not sit, its always coming and going with each sell.

So yes 100% accomplishment for October.

4 - Take a vacation

Hmm, No. 

I had planned to take one but a hurricane came and that blew that idea away.

I got two more months to take a few days vacation, maybe I can manage someone to come and check on the dogs.

100% fail but I tried. 

That is how I am doing with this years resolutions, 10 months gone.

How are you doing for 2018? 

By Andria Perry

Photos by Andria Perry

My Minimal Hoarding Life - For The Love Of Things

There is a balance for life, for me anyways, not to much and not to less.  My minimal hording life.

Somewhere in this life I got lost inside myself. Not moving forward in my quest for less, not that I began to hoard anything, just stepped away for a while not even realizing I had done so.

This feeling that I need to flee, pack up and go, its been ten years of peace but now I feel that have been betrayed by no one but myself, allowing this to happen. Gave up control, not that I wanted it in the first place but I need to draw that line. If its bad there are no third chances to prove any different, it cant change, only hide.

Ten years! Know what happens in ten years? 

Laziness.

Comfortable.

Junk and stuff.

Invasion into my brain.

Why do we have to always want stuff?  Cleaned out one space and I reckon some of it found its way back into my life, like ghosts following me home, quietly moved back in. A Tub here and a tub there. 

Must not mean that much it lives in a tub.

Oh Wait! 

That is my life in that tub, I keep it clean in that tub. So yeah, I am the tub lady that fights dust, that hates dust. But now I am confused because I made myself a new job.... Sunshine`s Homestead Creations . I do make soap and lotions and lip care, for use and sale. Since I make it I find no reason to hoard it from the stores when I get a fabulous coupon and buy one get one deal. 

So maybe that part is not so bad. 

Pack up work and go? That maybe an option. 

A plate, bowl, cup and fork,spoon, knife, skillet and pot. Coffee maker I won`t live without.

One pair of shoes, two pants, two shirts, two bras, six panties and six pair of socks.

Laptop and car.

Sounds simple doesn`t it?

So why do I live with so much stuff? I will never figure out how it found its way here.

Time to sort and throw out ten years of ...... this life. Time for new and free. That feeling of freedom comes with owning less stuff.

How about you? Can you do it? 

By Andria Perry

Photos by Pixabay.