Welcome to Autumn!! My favourite time of year - it's socially acceptable to drink tea and hot chocolate all the time, but it's still warm enough for only sweaters and scarves! This Autumn I am trying to start fresh with my financial responsibility. I know what you're all thinking: "Chels. You do this every year. Face it, it's never going to happen!!" But I swear, this time I'm going to do it! Instead of just saying I'm not going to spend money, I've set up budget for myself, I am also planning a life over-haul. This time I'm going to simplify my life!!
I've been hearing more and more about minimalist lifestyles and I'm going to try it out to see how it works for me. There are 2 main reasons for this: the first being my financial strain, I shop all the time and it makes my life so cluttered. I will clean my room and a week later it's messy again - I own that much useless stuff. Honestly I'm in a terrible cycle of spending a ton of money and then getting so sad because I put myself into debt and when I finally pay it off I end up repeating the cycle. How dumb is that?!?! My second reason is my want to travel, I've been dreaming of traveling the world since I was a spring chicken. But I've never been disciplined enough to save enough money to finance my travel plans. It's frustrating to realize all I want is life experience, and I'm wasting more money than I make on material items. I'm ready to make a change. For good.
I've been hearing more and more about minimalist lifestyles and I'm going to try it out to see how it works for me. There are 2 main reasons for this: the first being my financial strain, I shop all the time and it makes my life so cluttered. I will clean my room and a week later it's messy again - I own that much useless stuff. Honestly I'm in a terrible cycle of spending a ton of money and then getting so sad because I put myself into debt and when I finally pay it off I end up repeating the cycle. How dumb is that?!?! My second reason is my want to travel, I've been dreaming of traveling the world since I was a spring chicken. But I've never been disciplined enough to save enough money to finance my travel plans. It's frustrating to realize all I want is life experience, and I'm wasting more money than I make on material items. I'm ready to make a change. For good.
This Monday starts the first week of my journey as a self proclaimed minimalist! (Most definitions of the minimalist lifestyle say a minimalist is someone who likes to keep things simple, and uses minimal supplies.) So for my first week I decided to start off simple and give myself 3 challenges to get the ball rolling:
Tell me some of your tips for simplifying your lives, I'd love the help!!
- Pack my lunch/dinner every day - DO NOT BUY COFFEE
- Take the bus to school, don't spend $8 a day on parking!
- Sort through my bottoms and decide what I will keep and what will be given away
Tell me some of your tips for simplifying your lives, I'd love the help!!